So, when we choose place, we almost must play macro economist. You have a physical dwelling, but then you have a neighborhood, a street, a metropolitan area. I see place as being much broader than that. People think about place, their physical environment, their single-family home, their apartment, their cottage, their RV, and a bunch of different contexts. It is all happening simultaneously and impacts where we live, the place. The idea of living longer lives has allowed people, particularly knowledge workers, to work remotely either full-time or part-time that they previously couldn’t do. People are re-envisioning what retirement is now and how we do work has shifted since the pandemic. He was out, and the announcer didn’t say he was out, he said, ‘the batter’s retired.’ What that meant in that context: the batter disappeared. I was watching the game a few days ago and a guy hit a ball to the outfield, and it was caught. The baseball playoffs are happening right now. The definition of retiring in the dictionary is to withdraw. The nonretirement movement does impact where we live, doesn’t it? Read: ‘I’m no hedonist’ but I want to build our next home for retirement, my wife says no. I can do this differently than what my parents did and what do I want my life to look like?’ I wanted to use my expertise and passion to help people better process place, why it’s important, and what to do about it. It naturally created that element of reflection. You’ve got the seismic shift of the pandemic which has made everyone re-evaluate. Ryan Frederick: People don’t necessarily understand how significant place is in the context of living longer and healthy aging. Many of the themes he discusses had already been on the minds of boomers and Generation X as we began thinking of our own living situations with children launched perhaps, or eyeing second acts, as well as finding the right living situations for our aging parents, but the pandemic accelerated it.įrederick and I have known each other for a number of years as we have kibitzed at various conferences centered on retirement and aging, and to me this topic is more important than ever.
I’m returning to this subject because Ryan Frederick, the CEO of SmartLiving 360, a consulting and real-estate development firm that specializes in housing and healthy aging has a smart new book, “Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life” that brought it top of mind once again.įrederick’s book could not be arriving at a more critical time.
I wrote about this a few months ago in this column: “Considering a move for retirement? How to know if you’re ready or not”
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