Gray Area: Continuing-care communities let residents age in stages
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Roz and Zell McGee would love to grow old in Utah but they also want to live in a continuing-care retirement community, the kind of bucolic but invigorating campus that would let them age in stages. Earlier this decade, when they were still in their early 60s, they put in applications for two CCRCs on the East Coast.She and Zell never want to be a burden to their children, Roz explains, and they want to make decisions about their possible future care now, rather than leaving their children guessing. They're drawn to CCRCs because, as Roz says, "in a thoughtful way they provide for changing life conditions as you grow older," letting residents move from independent apartment to assisted living to skilled nursing should the need arise, all on the same campus. If one spouse needs to move to assisted living, the other spouse would still live close by.
There's no one type of CCRC or one-size-fits-all operating plan or fee structure, just as there's no one type of growing old. The campuses and the contracts are different from place to place, but they do have certain crucial points in common, according to Susanne Matthiesen, manager director of CARF-CCAC, which accredits the programs. These include providing a continuum of services "seniors tend not to like the paternalistic term 'care,"' she says as one grows older and possibly more frail. The bottom line is living as independently as possible, with the supportive services in place as needed. The CCRC typically has the right to decide if you need to move out of your independent apartment into a higher level of care.
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