NHRetirementLiving

2022: 3 Day version, focusing on CCRCs and other housing variations

4 Day version with Steve Gilvar: 2019: Fridays, Oct 4,11,18 and 25; 2018: Oct 12-Nov 2,

The scope here is for long-term, active living options Short URL for this page is: https://is.gd/NHretirement

These include 55+ housing communities, 55+ apartment housing, Continuing/Life Care communities -- both non-profit and commercial. [Not included would be nursing care facilities or assisted living facilities unless they are incorporated into the more active living situations]

Home Service Models; 55+ focused living - residences, condos, apartments, mobile homes ..

A copy of the slides is posted at the end of this page.

Outline:

• Introduction to concepts, terminology, resources

• Identifying participant's interests, objectives

• Do NH Natives have a different view from "newbies"

• What are the questions/Considerations?

• What does "Independent Living" mean to you? (to your spouse, kids, potential guardian...)

• Staying where you are

  • Dec 2022: Consumer Reports, "How to age-proof your home"

  • Seniors helping Seniors

  • In-home, at-home services

  • Hunt at Home

• AARP concept of livable communities and 2018 Survey results

• AARP article "Can you afford to age in place?"

• New Hampshire Housing (.org) publications & reports

• US News & World Report "Best senior living" (2022)

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (we are tracking those registered with the NH Insurance Commissioner)

• Birch Hill video describing CCRC options at high level (Now Riverwoods Manchester)

• Map of the 13+ CCRCs in NH (here)

• Getting good advice - Legal, Accountant, etc.

Condos, Apartments 55+, 62+

• 55+ community options

• Manufactured homes

• House Sharing

• Multi-generational approaches

NH Town by Town "healthy aging" report information now available (2019)

• https://healthyagingdatareports.org/new-hampshire-healthy-aging-data-report/

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (vary from active retirement living though nursing care, in some cases in the same facility)

• AARP article on CCRCs

• 10 Questions to ask about CCRCs; CANHR information on CCRCs; Seniorly article on CCRCs

• National Continuing Care Residents Association (may not be active in 2019)

NH Non-profit Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC):

[evaluation of non-profits and recent IRS form 990s available from IRS, Guidestar, or ProPublica ]

NH Insurance Dept---- List of CCRC's and annual report information

• Sliverstone

  • Hunt Nashua

  • Huntington Nashua

  • (Hunt at Home is an alternative approach)

• Taylor Community

  • Laconia

  • Wolfboro

• RiverWoods Group

  • RiverWoods Exeter

  • RiverWoods Durham (2020 completion)

  • RiverWoods Manchester, previously Birch Hill Terrace

• RiverMead - Peterborough

• Havenwood Heritage Heights - 2 locations in Concord

• Hillside Village, Keene (new)

• Wesley Woods, Laconia

• The Baldwin, Londonderry (2023) [associated with Edgewood in Mass.]

• Mass Options at https://www.mass.gov/service-details/continuing-care-retirement-communities

• Peabody Home - Franklin

• Kendal At Hanover

• Wentworth Senior Living - Portsmouth

• There are 100+ other senior living facilities characterized as "CCRC's" in NH, ranging from 6 beds on up,
  they are not listed with the Insurance Commissioner -- and check what services they provide, and benevolence clauses as well.

Village to Village Network (collaboration of sr. home owners based on "Villages" model)

• The Seacoast Villages Project - Age Quest, LLC Porthsmouth

• Community Care of Lyme - Lyme NH

• Monadnock at Home - Jaffery NH

• Cheshire Village at Home - Keene, NH

• VIllage Network - Nashua, NH (Life Coping, Inc.)

Note sites below may be collecting contact data and may be funded by selling that so folks can call, email or physically mail you promotional materials related to aging

One suggestion: if you identify a place of interest using these tools, enter the name of that into your search engine directly, and go to their web page to find out what services they provide.

Rental Units, modular homes, etc.

• Just using Google Maps and asking for New Hampshire 55+ apartments (not all are 55+)

• Medvil Cooperative (Many mobile home parks were converted to co-op ownership by the NH Community Loan Fund)

• www.LivingInnovations.com (Supporting persons with disabilities)

• www.RetirementHomes.com (search tool for selected properties)

• www.RetirementLiving.com (search tool ...)

• www.TopRetirements.com ( lists locations outside of US as well as by state)

• www.NHModularHomes.com (sells units)

Commercial residences (mostly condos and housing developments promoted by commercial sales entities)

• https://www.55places.com/new-hampshire/region/southern-new-hampshire

• https://www.after55.com/senior-housing/nh

• http://www.best-nh-homes-real-estate.com/southern-new-hampshire-adult-communities.php

• https://www.bestguide-retirementcommunities.com/newhampshireretirementcommunities.html

• http://activeadultliving.com/NH/new-hampshire

• https://www.retirementliving.com/new-hampshire

Concept Resources:

• NH State Plan on Aging (June 2019)

• Link to all NH Dept. of Health & Human Services licensed facilities

• Aging in place resources: http://www.ageinplace.org/Local-Chapters/New-Hampshire

• Jan 2018 NH Magazine "Guide to Retirement Living" (advertising insert)

• Dibbbern site national index of senior living options

• CoHousing -- national Directory

  • Alternative to Downsizing (Kaiser Health News Nov 2017)

  • Multi-age Nubanusit Farm, Pinnacle (Lyme),

• https://www.senioradvisor.com/ (requires registration for details)

Beyond the scope of this class (long term care, memory care facilities, assisted living facilities, etc.)

• After55.com -- lists many options

• A Place for Mom -- requires registration - lists a range of communities nation wide, can sort by location, type...

(although if you Google "62+ Apartments near me" ...
you get to placeformom listings without registration.)

• Assisted Living Locators, an operation parallel to Place for Mom (registration)

• Genisis Health Care communities such as Langdon Place (Nashua, Keene, Manchester, etc.)

• Assisted Living Locator service (free, referral fees cover costs)