DALLAS: Providing the housing types that seniors will need and want will likely be challenging. What type of seniors housing will they want?
Understanding that issue will require breaking down the cohort according to different needs. According to an architect, professor, and urban studies expert, many newly retired people can be classified as the “young-old,” meaning they are retired but still in good health, newly free from the duties of work and family raising, and also free from medical problems. He wrote about the “young-old” and housing options for seniors in his…