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Hello and welcome back to all home care matters.

If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, thank you for taking time out to be with us today.

We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we're going to be discussing a topic

that everyone can relate to, and that's aging in place. In 2014, the AARP conducted research on this

very topic to see what people's choices were as far as them preferring to age

in place in their home or those that would prefer to move into a senior living community of some

type. In the AARP study from 2014, it showed that nearly 90% of those surveyed over the age of 65

wanted to stay in their home as they aged. However, this very

same survey found that among the next wave of retirees, those who were between the age of 50 and 64,

only 71% have felt the same way. Now, it's been six years since that initial study, and those

individuals in the second wave are either approaching their 70s or they are already 70 years old.

And this is the phase we would generally expect to see seniors beginning to start focusing on their living options and choices.

Since that original study in 2014, the AARP has conducted another study, and it's also their most

recent study focusing on this issue from 2018. And in this most recent study, the results had

showed that adults 50 years old and older, who preferred to stay in their homes as long as possible,

was now at 76%. The National Association of Home Builders had also

recently shared that they have seen a 30% increase in the amount of its members seeking specialized

training to help their older clients who want to stay in their homes for as long as possible.

So we could see that the overall preference for individuals and their families is for them to remain in their homes as long as possible. So we can see that the overall preference for individuals and their

families is for them to remain in their homes as long as possible so that they can age in place.

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