My sister sent me this. Something to think about, fer sure.
"No nursing home for us. We'll be checking into a Holiday Inn!
With the average cost for a nursing home care costing $188.00 per day,
there is a better way when we get old and too feeble. I've already
checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn. For a combined long term
stay discount and senior discount, it's $59.23 per night.
Breakfast is included, and some have happy hours in the afternoon. That
leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant we want,
or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies. Plus,
they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and
washer-dryer, etc.
Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap.
$5-worth of tips a day and you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
They treat you like a customer, not a patient.
There's a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free. The handicap
bus will also pick you up (if you fake a decent limp). To meet other
nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.
For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one
of the nice restaurants there. While you're at the airport, fly
somewhere. Otherwise, the cash keeps building up. It takes months
to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your
reservation today. And you're not stuck in one place forever -- you
can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city. Want to see Hawaii ?
They have Holiday Inn there too.
TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced? No problem..
They fix everything, and apologize for the inconvenience. The Inn has a
night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if
you are ok. If not, they'll call an ambulance . . . or the undertaker.
If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday
Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life. And no worries
about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you, and
probably check in for a few days mini-vacation. The grand-kids can use
the pool."
One of the old men in our church did just that. He had a room in a really nice hotel here and lived there about 6 or 7 years. He would have still been living there today, but the hotel closed a couple of months ago, so he now rents a room in the house of another church member. He is 103 years old and was keeping up the flower beds at the hotel for something to do.
I took a cruise in AK back in 2009 and met a lady who traveled the world with princess cruises as her retirement. I'm not sure of the details but she would hop from ship to ship, one after the other. When we met her, she said she was over 6 months at sea, in between visiting family. Probably a similar expense to "senior living".
-V
Wife has an aunt & uncle who live in an RV.
Both in their 60's, retired and invested wisely. Now they just travel...
