Though many of today's seniors began life before there was rock music, air conditioners, microwaves ovens, credit cards, SUV's and computers, they watched all these innovations come to birth and have embraced many of them. In fact, in a 2004 survey, Pew Research reported that nearly 50% of all seniors own computers and are on the Internet.  I find my personal experience to be such that nearly all seniors are connected to the web in some way.  In fact, many of my senior clients, well into their 80's and beyond, have conducted full escrow transactions using e-signatures through the web.  We are in an amazing time.

Today's seniors live active lives. Some are working on second or third careers because working isn't something they do just to earn money; it's a way of taking all their accumulated knowledge and applying it to projects they love and believe in.  Some are focusing on their equity portfolios not just to insure provision for their children, but to plan and prepare for their own future in regard to housing, mental and health issues.

While today's seniors were born before there was touch tone dial, CD players and the Internet, it was members of today's senior population who invented these things. Many of you are still productive in the work force today, working hard and inventing our future.  And today's seniors are positively spirited as a result of enhanced physical and dietary regimens.  I find many of my senior clients making lateral moves rather than the predetermined 'downsizing' or assisted living moves, to go both in AND out of retirement communities thereby adjusting their level of independent living.  There is no rule of thumb! 

Feel free to contact me anytime you find yourself giving thought to the 'next steps' in life.  I can help provide a backdrop for your decisions with respect to housing, costs, equity and logistics.  I look forward to assisting you with your next big move!  And sometimes this is a slow moving target that evolves over many months and years of planning.