How to Navigate the Maze of Options to Find Your Ideal Home
Designed to help people through the maze of preconception, others’ opinions and determined sales pitches to find the best retirement home for you and or your spouse, this course will save your thousands of dollars and years of heartache for making a wrong decision.
What you’ll learn
- 1. You will explore what you want and need in housing to make your retirement the best for who you are.
- 2. 2. You will learn to over come preconceived notions from you, your family and professionals.
- 3. You will learn about all the possible options from staying where you are to cruising the world and more.
- 4. You will learn how each of your preferred options can be altered to make them more to your tastes.
- 5. You will learn what questions to ask salespeople and how to listen to their answers.
- 6. You will avoid wasting 10’s of thousands of dollars and years of heart ache by making the right choice the first time.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 1 lecture • 3min.
- My 55 Year Journey to the Knowledge You Are About to Learn –> 1 lecture • 18min.
- Your Perfect Day. DO NOT SKIP –> 1 lecture • 16min.
- Age In Place –> 1 lecture • 12min.
- Independent Living & Assisted Living –> 1 lecture • 21min.
- Continuing Care Residential Center –> 1 lecture • 10min.
- 55+. Independent Communities for People 55 Years and Older –> 1 lecture • 13min.
- Whether in an RV or on a Cruise Ship, There are Options for Those with Wonderlus –> 1 lecture • 6min.
- Don’t Forget to Join the Facebook Group for Much More Help –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- You Can Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job & Life; Save Your Fortune & Sanity –> 1 lecture • 4min.
- Addendum #3 Boundaries –> 2 lectures • 2min.
- Dementia Is a Collection of Symptoms That Can Mean Many Things, Don’t Assume –> 1 lecture • 7min.
Requirements
Designed to help people through the maze of preconception, others’ opinions and determined sales pitches to find the best retirement home for you and or your spouse, this course will save your thousands of dollars and years of heartache for making a wrong decision.
The course teaches the recent history of retirement living as an introduction to what is available and how it got there.
Next is an exercise that will help you get past your own preconceived notions and discover the essence of what you really want and need. People often settle on an option without really being clear what this will mean to their lifestyle. This section called “Your Perfect Day” is the foundation of what you will do in the rest of the course and your entire life. Do not skip it. Have fun while taking it seriously.
Then you will learn about the options from staying home, to 55+ communities to traveling the country or world and others. After you decide on an option you will learn how to differentiate within those options, such as how to investigate dining in independent living or how to avoid losing money in a CCRC. This will help you avoid common pitfalls.
You will learn to navigate through sales pitches and the opinions of loved ones and concerned professionals. Your instructor Margo Arrowsmith, LCSW has years of experience visiting all of the options and can guide you to see important distinctions that you would otherwise miss.
At the end of the course will be additional information such as how to live in intergenerational households and the importance of boundaries for happiness families.
After you finish the basic course there will be a community where you can attend office hours or ask questions on the forum to be answered by the instructor and others in the course. This course will be there for you as long as you need it.