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HHCN: More Seniors Age in Place Thanks to Growth of “Villages”
Source: Home Health Care News / By Kaitlyn Mattson, 9/13/18
For a small group of people in 1999 Boston, moving into a retirement community was not desirable, making them determined to stay in their own homes. The trailblazers found their own solution to enable aging in place — a village.
From that beginning, a movement was born, and the growth of villages today is supporting aging in place and could provide partnership opportunities for home health and home care providers moving forward.
“It wasn’t our intention to change the world,” Susan McWhinney-Morse, board member and co-founder of the Beacon Hill Village, told Home Health Care News.”It was our intention to make our world, for us, more agreeable.”