Ben HanowellSafest Cities for Senior Housing That Won’t Break the BankNo family wants to live in an undesirable neighborhood just to pay a lower price for senior housing and care. To help families find the…Jan 4, 2017Jan 4, 2017
Ben HanowellBest Cities to Retire If You Love ShoppingWith help from Walk Score — a Redfin company that helps people find a new home in a livable neighborhood — we rank cities by how close…Dec 19, 2016Dec 19, 2016
Ben HanowellCalm Down. American Life Expectancy Isn’t Falling.The media is abuzz about a small drop in life expectancy in 2015. Yet despite sensationalist headlines, human lifespan has actually risen…Dec 12, 2016Dec 12, 2016
Ben HanowellHow Many Years of Senior Housing Is Your Home Worth?Moving to a senior living community is a major financial decision regardless of your current care needs. Many families count on the sale of…Nov 30, 2016Nov 30, 2016
Ben HanowellAre Older Adults Less Politically Polarized About Where They Want to Live?Emily Badger, a reporter at the New York Times, wrote an article for The Upshot called What’s Your Ideal Community? The Answer Is…Nov 7, 2016Nov 7, 2016
Ben HanowellWe Need A New Economic Index for Senior Housing and Care RegulationEarlier this week, I posted an analysis that used the Wharton Residential Land-use Regulation Index and senior housing cost data from A…Oct 28, 2016Oct 28, 2016
Ben HanowellHome ownership rate on the rise? Don’t believe the headlines.Today, journalists wrote about the rising home ownership rate despite no evidence whatsoever for an upward trend.Oct 27, 2016Oct 27, 2016
Ben HanowellAging Nation Knows Little About How Regulation Affects Senior Housing CostsFor older American consumers, senior housing costs are rising slowly but steadily as the population ages. Government regulation is known to…Oct 26, 2016Oct 26, 2016
Ben HanowellHow We Estimated Senior Housing Costs for 2,000 Cities and Towns at A Place for MomWhen you think of state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms, I bet you don’t think about the senior living industry. At A Place for Mom…Oct 12, 2016Oct 12, 2016
Ben HanowellWhat the Star Trek Era You Grew Up in Says About YouStar Trek celebrated its 50th anniversary on September 8th. Just two years from now, Baby Boomers–who grew up watching The Original…Sep 13, 2016Sep 13, 2016
