Senior Living - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:34:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Senior Living - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 More Older People Are Opting to Age in Their Homes. Here’s How They’re Doing It. https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/03/13/more-older-people-are-opting-to-age-in-their-homes-heres-how-theyre-doing-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-older-people-are-opting-to-age-in-their-homes-heres-how-theyre-doing-it Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:00:27 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1627925 It was the spiral staircase that prompted Pender McCarter to reconsider his situation. “I’d lived in my 600-square-foot condo in Dupont Circle for 35 years and loved the spiral staircase, but when I turned 75, I realized that I needed to rethink my living arrangements,” says McCarter, a retired public-relations executive. So last year he […]

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An Innovative Cooking Method Is Making Mealtime a Lot More Enjoyable for People With Dementia https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/18/an-innovative-cooking-method-is-making-mealtime-a-lot-more-enjoyable-for-people-with-alzheimers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-innovative-cooking-method-is-making-mealtime-a-lot-more-enjoyable-for-people-with-alzheimers Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:00:32 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1572040 In a culture as food-obsessed as ours, the inability to enjoy a delicious meal can be one of the cruelest indignities of aging. Which is why, about a decade ago, a pair of chefs in Atlanta named Sarah Gorham and Stone Morris devised a cooking method specifically for elderly people navigating neuromuscular, physical, and cognitive […]

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Living in Shaw—as a Senior Citizen https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/11/28/living-in-shaw-as-a-senior-citizen-hodge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-in-shaw-as-a-senior-citizen-hodge Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:00:28 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=535081 I walk into Compass Coffee in Shaw on a Tuesday afternoon. In the cafe full of mostly white twenty- and thirtysomethings staring at their laptops, it’s easy to spot the man I’m here to meet, seated in the corner. As an African-American senior citizen, Bernard Johnson stands out amid the hipsters. Johnson lives a block […]

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Why Smaller (And Cheaper!) Assisted-Living Homes Are Often Best https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/11/10/smaller-cheaper-assisted-living-homes-often-best/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=smaller-cheaper-assisted-living-homes-often-best Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:15:07 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=245232 Residents of the area’s large, high-end assisted-living communities—the kind where they can visit a beauty salon, restaurant, and theater without leaving the property—pay as much as $12,000 a month. For a lot of families, the fees are simply out of reach. Another option: Washington’s hundreds of small facilities, usually called assisted-living group homes. What these […]

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