PHOENIX: Retirement Communities need to start looking outside their boundaries to generate additional income.

Continuous Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) are set up to develop a medical tourism business unit.

This trend will be covered in detail in the Over 50s Housing Trends Seminar.

SAN JOSE: David Wolfe, author of Ageless Marketing, tells the story of Reader’s Digest’s efforts to increase readership. Back around 25 years ago there was a successful lifestyle magazine for the older crowd called 50 Plus. Readers Digest took notice of an aging population and Read More »

NEW YORK: Empty nest syndrome – the phenomenon felt by parents whose children have finally left the family home – is becoming less common.

It is being supplanted by the rise of the boomerang child. Offspring are leaving much later, and often returning.

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SEATTLE: A market research report by Mintel has identified home care as one of the fastest growing business opportunities.

The report attributes the disaffection with skilled nursing homes and the desire to avoid them as one of the principal drivers of growth.

This trend will