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Golden Years Retirement Inns of your dreams

My mother's Retirement Inn took her, along with other resident neighbors, to the Whatcom County Tulip Fields - an extravagant display of acres and acres of bright blooming bulbs, in her region of Washington State. New York boasts The New York Botanical Gardens, with ever changing exhibits, nybg.org

Life in a retirement community can begin with the golden comfort of prepared meals in a luscious dining room, maid service with linens provided, on-site managers 24 hours/day, in-house and regional outings. Most Retirement Inns have their own busses, vans, and cars for transporting residents to area features, such as famous restaurants (well, at least locally famous), tours, water features, museums, shopping and so much much more.

Frequently, Retirements Inns have a "Doctor Day" - say on Tuesday - when their driver makes the rounds of the residents' medical providers' offices, clinics and hospitals for scheduled drop-off and pick-up later on.

Retirement homes visit cultural centers, such as libraries, senior centers, university and city lectures - you name it!

Whether elegant high-rise or rural cottage is your choice, it is best to thoroughly examine the terms and amenities offered in any retirement inn. See a selection of fine retirement communities in New York. Find free time and let staff tend to all the chores.

Benefits to Giving Advance Thought to GoldenYearsRetirementInns

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Fabulous Orchid Show at Bronx Botanical Gardens - make it a retirement outing

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New York Orchid Art for your GoldenYearsRetirementInns

Frame a gorgeous poster print of these stunning orchids. The shot was taken at the 25th New York International Orchid Show. 24" x 32" photographic print comes in several sizes and in your choice of paper or canvas.
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Make the List of the Rest of Your Life

you choose whatever you want & add it to whatever you need

It's important to Make a List of amenities that are important to you, those you prefer, and those you Can't Live Without, before making the tours of retirement centers.

1. Grab a cup of coffee or tea, or a glass of water & sit down at your table or desk. Use a pen you love, and make the list in any order whatsoever. Make it a real Brainstorming session.

This is a clarification process for you. It is meant to be enjoyable, without pressure, or self-judgment. Love yourself - love your future.

Glass Mugs Clearly Hold Your Beverage

drink levels decline as your retirement list grows longer

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Use a Fresh Tablet, Notebook or Pad for List

be sure it has a pleasant aspect & that it won't get scribbled on

2. Use a favorite writing tool, and a large paper pad.

Dedicating a new spiral notebook, stationery set, quirky writing pad, or a piece of artists' drawing paper will bring the rewards of always knowing where your Retirement Home notes can be found.

Assign a certain homebase to the paper/notebookj/pad, such as a bookcase, desk drawer, bedside table, armchair lamp table, or the kitchen table. It's a good idea to keep the paper visible, as a memory jogger for times when you suddent want to make impromptu additions to your list.

*try to resist using your computer for this project. It's important to use all your senses, hence: aroma of the beverage, touch of the paper, sound of the old fashioned pen writing in the journal and sound of the journal as it unsnaps and closes, sight of the visuals on your get-away walk or drive.

Butterfly Journal Has Magnetic Closure

open for use and closed from straying eyes

Gold foil, gloss highlights, and embossing light up this lovely Butterflies journal. A special feature: a foldover flap that closes with a magnet to secure your writings. Makes a great personal diary-no need to worry about a lock or keep track of a key.
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Visualize Your Future Retirement Home - your Golden Years Retirement Inns

mentally place yourself in some room of the home

3. Close your eyes and imagine the setting in which you prefer to spend retirement years - ok, the photo's a joke!

It may have been your grandparents' retirement home, but it's not for you. Do you need access to a worthy in-house library? Would you prefer to be within one block of the Subway? Do you need a private car with driver - some homes offer such.

Envision your day, from rising and breakfasting (in your apartment, or in the home's dining room), morning activities of choice,

You'll Enrich Your Golden Years Retirement with This Book

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Begin Writing Notes to Yourself about your GoldenYearsRetirementInns

preferences & requirements are not set in stone unless you say so

4. Note the specific aspects of your wishes under a Preferences column, and write your needs under a Requirements column. Perhaps you require a gluten-free gourmet diet and you occasionally need it delivered to your suite. On the other hand, maybe you are toying with the idea of plunking your fortune into your favorite nonprofit, or into a new trust for your grandchildren, and you want to live out your years in a modest studio apartment in a country retirement inn.

Allow yourself the freedom to "need" everything that you want, in the first drafts of your List. Right now you are just laying the undercoat on the wall, and you can take your time to decide in the color and environmental soundness of the finish coat. Go ahead and paint a few brush strokes. List your meal types, for instance. Do you need three bedrooms, or will one do?

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

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Evaluate Your Lists for Your GoldenYearsRetirementInns

sleep on it! it's your future you are establishing

5. Take a break from list-making, for a walk, a meal, a visit, a subway zip downtown, or a trip to the local Senior Center. Get a fresh perspective. Once your list takes shape you will begin to see the city in a different light. Maybe you yearn for country life. New York State has small towns galors, with vibrant culture, and wide open spaced farms.

Return to your list, or take your list out along your journey, as new insights sprout. Add, move and shuffle list items. This process of sorting out the wants/needs resembles cultivating a garden. It needs your attention, like watering, fertilizing, and pruning. Don't get bogged down by spending too much time at the list in one setting. You are a garden too!

See New York as Your Land of Opportunity

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Rewrite Your List & Tour GoldenYearsRetirementInns

fresh and new and inspirational for your retirement living

6. Use your favorite pen, and rewrite your list. You can always refer back to the first one, with all it's reworkings, but having a fresh new list will show you the progress you are making. You will realize that your retirement goals are refined, and open to repeated polishing.

Now you are ready to do some Internet research, and schedule some tours. Your initial retirement home visits will likely bring more questions than answers - in reference to your own retirement. Accept the tour director's invitation to lunch. Look around and sample. Ask questions of residents as they congregate at the elevator. Note whether there is a long wait for the elevator. You are doing due diligence and you'll thank yourself for it. Please check out these links, and enter new links to retirement inns you liked, in the Guestbook, at the bottom.Thanks, and Happy Sailing. photo by Daniel Schwen wikipedia.org

Which Neighborhood is the Right Fit for you

the old familiar from a new angle

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Attitude, Activities & Connections Infuse the Golden Years with Meaning

Valuable article, written for nurses, is applicable to most retirees who seek meaning in the senior years.

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NYC's Lincoln Center at Night

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New York City and Vicinity GoldenYearsRetirementInns

Maplewood Estates
Gracious living in Fairport in Perinton, along the Erie Canal. meals, housekeeping, indoor mini golf, games. Relax or venture out on the biking and walking trails, visit the village library or take advantage of the abundance of boating opportunities and return to chef-prepared meals and evening activities.
585-218-9570
Saranac Village at Will Rogers - Retirement Communities & Homes - The Retirement Net
Luxury in retirement living. Majestic tudor stle building, with fireplaces. Dine in elegance. Studios, one or two bedroom apartments, two meals daily, housekeeping, laundry services and activities. No buy-in. Starts at $750 per month.
518-891-7117
Pacific Pointe Retirement Inn
Studios - 2 bedroom apartments and duplex cottages in King City. All the amenities for the best of retirement living. Two meals per day, and snacks and beverages at a 24 hour snack bar. Enjoy the pleasure of gardening in waist-high planters, or in the greenhouse.
Located next to Tigard, Beaverton and Portland, with shopping centers, gold course, banks, and specialty shops in walking distance.
503-684-1008
Montclair Inn
Ooperated by Montclair Shared Housing Association, the Inn provides a
gracious living environment for single seniors 62+, within income requirements
973-746-8917
Brookside: Senior Living, Retirement Community, Assisted Living in Lowville, New York, NY
Brookside: Lowville New York Retirement Community, Senior Living, and Assisted Living Retirement property where people find purpose in their retirement years. Live as independently as you choose, or select all the amenities, including woodworking shop, salon, shuffleboard, gardens, cottage homes.
315-376-4333
Bethel Senior Living Adult Day Retirement Living Home Care Rehab Nursing Westchester NY
A Proud Tradition of Caring at Bethel Senior Living options. Ossining and Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Services provided include Adult Day Services, Home Care, Transportation, Assisted Living and more
The Pines Independent Living
A Proud Tradition of Caring
50 one and two bedroom apartments. Three meals per day, housekeeping, security and transportation. Lounges, laundry, activity/exercise room.
Willow Towers - Assisted Living in New Rochelle, Westchester, New York
Willow Towers is a Luxury Assisted Living Residence located in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. We also provide special assistance for those with Alzheimer's or memory impairment in our 20-unit Phoenix Neighborhood.
Call 877.636.6565 or 914.636.6565
Ives Hill: Watertown Retirement Community, Assisted Living, Senior Living, New York, NY
Ives Hill: Watertown New York Retirement Community, Senior Living, and Assisted Living Retirement property. Patio-style duplexes, cottage homes and apartments. Services and amenities designed to support active and independent lifestyle.
315-779-9590
Lake Forest on Lake Champlain
Non-profit retirement community. One or two bedroom apartments in central building or townhouse-duplexes with garages. Amenities with lower windows, full sized kitchens, walk-in closets, maintenance, wellness services, storage, AC, covered front porch, four season Greenhouse, computers.
Call (518) 561-6431 or (888) 611-6008
Holiday Retirement - Diamond Ridge Home -
Peace of mind, flexibility, freedom and security are waiting here for you. Each Retirement communitie is professionally managed by two teams who live, sleep, eat and work at each of our communities. This allows them to develop close and caring relationships with our residents, just like a big family! 1-800-322-0999
Vinecroft: Clarence Center Senior Living, Retirement Community, Assisted Living, New York, NY
Vinecroft: Clarence Cente,r New York Retirement Community, a Christian-based community. Services are personalized and tailored to individual needs and desires. Apartments and patio-style duplexes. Full size kitchens, attached garages.
Call for a tour: 716-741-7741
The Hallmark of Battery Park City
Elegant retirement living in Manhattan. Views, gorgeous appointed interiors, with professional and courteous staff. Full range of apartment sizes, with linens and meals provided.
212-791-2500
ElderWood Senior Care - Care Without Compromise%uFFFD
At ElderWood, residents receive as much attention - or as little - as they need. Our continuum of care means they can progress seamlessly from independent living to care services.
1-888-826-9663
Tennyson Court - Senior Care Community
"An Intimate Cottage-Style Alternative to Assisted and Alzheimers Care"(Located across Transit Road from the Eastern Hills Mall)
ASSISTED LIVING AT TENNYSON COURT Tennyson Court Senior Care Community is specifically designed to help seniors enjoy a safe.
716-632-9496
Tonawanda Manor Assisted Living
Maintain the highest level of independence, or access a variety of services to enjoy your later years.
716-871-1814
Amberleigh at Woodside Farms
Amberleigh serves three meals daily, Sunday brunch, housekeeping, extensive activities and social programs, transportation, beautiful grounds, parking. Classes and lectures, gardening and mystery rides.
2330 Maple Road
Williamsville, NY 14221
716-689-4555
Elmira Colony Park Retirement community in Elmira, New York - Business Profile at City-data.com
Elegant oversized apartments with balconies or patios, full size kitchens, in unit washer/dryers. Meals and housekeeping available. Parking, storage.
607-734-4836
Regency at Fishkill
Luxurious, 55+ age-restricted, active-adult community, offers the perfect blend of charm and sophistication. ingle-level living, with elevator services, combines with a nearly maintenance free lifestyle to bring you the ultimate in luxury condominium home living for active adults.
845-896-5700
The Villages at Mount Sinai Park
The Villages at Mount Sinai offers everything that contributes to a great neighborhood... beautiful homes of quality and value with first floor master bedroom suites, exceptional recreational amenities and plenty of new friends.
631-331-2677
Seabury life care retirement community Seabury Retirement
Welcome to Seabury, a life care retirement community, where your retirement living is always a matter of choice - your choice. Located on 66 acres of scenic farmland, Seabury is just minutes from the centers of West Hartford and Bloomfield. Seabury combines a full range of lifestyle and residence options.
(860) 286-0243 | (800) 340-4709
Hertlin House
At Hertlin House you'll have 14 wooded acres with spectacular views from
your apartment. Patios, fireplace lounge, Terrace Restaurant, cafe for continental breakfast with the daily paper, reading room, fitness center, arts and crafts, and game and card rooms on every floor.
Meandering walking paths with comfortable benches along the way.
866-409-7932

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Keep Your Eye on The City You Love

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The Big Apple & the New York Countryside has Golden Years Retirement Inns

New York, city and state, has it all! The weather ever varies through the seasons. When it's spring you'll delight to the bright air and during summer the blooms will take the edge off the heat. Winter is winter, real and ranges through the degrees of rain and snow.

New Yorkers enjoy a livelier economy than 95% of the country, and residences definitely range from the bottom upwards of million dollar apartments. Retirement Inns range similarly from modest to luxurious, urban to country style.

If your choice is the city then you can live car-free and use a combination of walking to the corner market and using the bus and cabs around town. Many New Yorkers benefit from frequent walking to accomplish their errands and arrive back home to fine dining in their retirement homes. Living is gracious, busy, or calm as you choose.

Janet Hays fills us in on how we can retire in that great New York City, whether we have money or not: http://search.barnesandnoble.com

photo of rural town New York state festival atmosphere that is not found in the big city. Both are enjoyable, but this has a small town atmosphere. photo by BigBadbflo en.wikipedia.org.jpg

Niagara Falls for Western NY GoldenYearsRetirementInns

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Niagara Falls Retirement Living - ElderWood

ElderWood offers residents as much attention - or as little - as they need. Our continuum of care means they can progress seamlessly from independent living, to assisted living, to skilled nursing. Most importantly, in Western New York, only ElderWood skilled nursing has met the country's highest standards of quality. And that will give you peace of mind. more about ElderWood amenities http://www.elderwood.com

Niagara Falls Region for your Exploration

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Your GoldenYearsRetirementInns in Paris

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Imagine strolling along the Champs Elysee as a permanent resident in Paris. We have this photo courtesy Benh Lieu Song en.wikipedia.org.jpg

Looking Overseas for GoldenYearsRetirementInns

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Please Share Information on Your Favorite New York Retirement Inn

First hand information is always the best. We want to know which retirement facility is your favorite. Please include a website and phone number.

  • ajgodinho May 23, 2012 @ 5:50 pm | delete
    Nice approach to choosing a retirement inn. I haven't given a serious thought about it yet, but I guess at some point it's a good idea to envision retirement and have a plan in place. Stay blessed! :)
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