Tag: retirement
Wives like to retire around the same time as their older husbands – so they can play. But what a difference the baby boom generation has made. For boomer wives, as members of the first generation of women to enter the U.S. labor force en masse, there can be a steep cost to leaving t…
Mary Roby The stress of living with her son and daughter-in-law made Mary Roby’s blood sugar spike. But when she began her search for an independent senior housing community, affordable and nice never seemed to come in the same package. Roby, who is 80, said she looked around quite a bit. A one-room place in t…
