This thread reminded me of something I was thinking about this week.
our interests and tastes don’t really change as we get old.
I absolutely LOATHE all of the “nice” assisted living places I have seen. Why? Because they are all new builds, in varying degrees of expensive.
Hermann has a hideous Assist Living center that is all one floor and ugly. It is out on a highway, so no chance to view darling victorian architecture of Hermann. Just look at fields and cars driving by.
I would like to be in assisted living in one of the old church monasteries or whatever they are called around here. Great old buildings! But those are not in the city and are away from ethnic restaurants and some (not all) cultural places. They are all multi story which does not work for the old folks.