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Man Plans to Retire to Holiday Inn Instead of Nursing Home Because It’s Cheaper

99 点作者 rohmanhakim大约 6 年前

14 条评论

massysett大约 6 年前
This is ridiculous because a nursing home and the Holiday Inn are not remotely comparable. A nursing home is for people who can&#x27;t take care of themselves. They have nursing staff available 24 hours a day. They assist people with going to the bathroom, eating, taking medicines, etc. A Holiday Inn does none of that.<p>Clearly this man is capable of taking care of himself, which is great. He doesn&#x27;t even need assisted living. He would fare just fine in a regular retirement community or just in a regular apartment, so the question is not how a Holiday Inn compares to a nursing home. It&#x27;s how a Holiday Inn compares to an apartment.
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JorgeGT大约 6 年前
Everything old is new again. It used to be common to live in hotels, specially towards the end of one&#x27;s life, at a time where specialized facilities were scarce or nonexistent. Just off the top of my head Tesla&#x27;s last years were spent at the Hotel New Yorker, with Westinghouse footing the bill.
evochimp大约 6 年前
Even before you retire, if you are single or just a small family it is far far cheaper and far far better to live in a Holyday Inn than an Apartment building. First they will give you monthly rate instead of daily rate which is half. Then you have no deposit. You interact with hotel staffs who treat you like God instead of a landlord who treat you like slave. You need not clean the room or bed. Officially you occupy a small area though, your bedroom and bath, but you have the whole Hotel facility and area to share, you can also visit the city parks and libraries.
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berbec大约 6 年前
I&#x27;m going through this with my father. Since he didn&#x27;t buy a long term care plan, the assisted living facilities by us will be $11k a month out of pocket.<p>If you live in the USA, please talk to your parents&#x2F;spouse&#x2F;friends about long term care.
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howard941大约 6 年前
&gt; If you&#x27;re thinking he&#x27;s overlooking the care one gets in a retirement home, he&#x27;s considered that as well, and feels confident the staff of Holiday Inn are up to the task.<p>Having lived out of a suitcase at a competitor&#x27;s inn for 3 years on a job out of town I think Planning Man is in for a care let-down. Or if dementia sets in, perhaps not.
latchkey大约 6 年前
This is really no different than the huge number of older retired people who move to foreign countries. Expats. Obviously, not for everyone as it is quite different and sometimes challenging to live in a foreign country.<p>As someone who has moved to SE Asia (Vietnam) and is &#x27;only&#x27; 45, I think almost daily about how much money I&#x27;m saving for my eventual &#x27;retirement&#x27; and how much happier I am.
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ccnafr大约 6 年前
As someone who&#x27;s facing this with his parents. Sadly, it&#x27;s true. Nursing homes prices have tripled over the last five years.
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cletus大约 6 年前
Similar idea with cruise ships [1].<p>In Australia this largely seems to work better. There&#x27;s obviously public aged care but that can be a crap shoot in many ways. Like there might only be a place for you 200 miles from where you&#x27;d been living, which might be a challenge to maintain contact to friends and family. But if you have some capital behind you (eg you own your house and sell it) then you have private options, which tend to be a lot better. Typically, you pay a &quot;deposit&quot; (for lack of a better word) and then the facility collects 85% of your aged pension. When you die, your deposit is returned to your estate. The size of that deposit varies a lot. It might be as little as $300k or it might be $1m+. It depends on what you want.<p>The whole thing seems a lot less &quot;gougey&quot; than what I know about aged care in the US, for example.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aplaceformom.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013-2-2-cruise-ship-retirement-assisted-living&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aplaceformom.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013-2-2-cruise-ship-retir...</a>
honopu大约 6 年前
I&#x27;d seriously look at retiring on a cruise ship. Might not be as cost effective, but it would give you a ton of stuff to do. I could probably live on a cruise ship for less than what it costs me to live.
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baybal2大约 6 年前
Our generation of people, millennial, have no hope of having the same retirement as people in their sixties today.<p>Simple arithmetic says that once the taxpayer&#x2F;dependent ratio will hit that of Germany, it will be very very hard. Either you have a very strong industrial economy, or you study Greek.<p>Having some kids, and expecting them to give back one day does not seem to be anything unnatural to me. Though, I hope I will get some humility by then, and not have them bail out me financially by my fifties as my own parents did :(
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vezycash大约 6 年前
I read this story a few weeks ago. Don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s fiction or not <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reshareworthy.com&#x2F;old-lady-alone-on-a-cruise-ship&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reshareworthy.com&#x2F;old-lady-alone-on-a-cruise-shi...</a>
purplezooey大约 6 年前
It&#x27;s interesting that anything paid for with funny money, like loans, the sale of one&#x27;s nest egg, or insurance, is wildly overpriced.
bfdm大约 6 年前
I can&#x27;t tell whether this is satire or April Fools material or not, and that&#x27;s a little bit sad for the way we treat our seniors.
EGreg大约 6 年前
Reminds me of this<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-dWFKp-bJtk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-dWFKp-bJtk</a>