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How Baby Boomers Are Shaking Up the Retirement Home Biz

As tens of millions of Baby Boomers enter retirement, it is time to rethink the stale and miserable mannequin of conventional retirement properties: institutional meals, grumpy underpaid workers, and countless rounds of bingo. Jimmy Buffett’s on board. The getting old island-rocker has added a “55 or better” retirement neighborhood to his Margaritaville enterprise franchise (what, you have not eaten at a Cheeseburger in Paradise?) Retirees who purchase one in every of the hundreds of models obtainable at the Latitude Margaritaville deliberate communities in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Hilton Head, South Carolina, can look ahead “island-inspired living” that, in line with a promotional video, appears to principally focus on completely happy hour. Even if sipping watered-down drinks beneath a palm tree is not everybody’s concept of an ideal retirement, there are numerous ways in which conventional retirement communities can up their recreation. Journalist Beth Baker just lately tou...