Tag: senior housing

Working together on their budget

San Francisco is caught in the vortex of two powerful forces: a fast-growing retiree population and rising rents. Residents over 60 are expected to make up a fourth of the city’s residents by 2030, according to this video project for The San Francisco Standard by Chris Chang, a student in the University of California, Berkeley’s…

elderly man inserting credit card to ATM

Abstract Understanding the economic characteristics of residents in seniors care communities is important to understanding the demand for these services as well as how individuals are paying for this type of care.  It is particularly critical now given the recent steep decline in both the housing and equity markets, which could significantly erode the assets…