Settling In - My First Year in a Retirement Community

There’s retirement living, and then there’s living it up in retirement. The latter is part of the draw of one of the fastest-growing retirement options – the continuing-care retirement community. These CCRCs, as they’re called, often look a lot more like four-star resorts than old folks’ homes.

Amenities may include gourmet restaurants, infinity pools, gyms, spas and concierges. Pennsylvania’s Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, home to Dean and Marion Snyder, has a cinema and a putting green. But the greatest luxury of CCRCs isn’t any of these. It’s this: health care for life.

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