The Impending Death of Assisted Living

If there is any industry that is refusing to trust the calendar, it is the assisted-living industry. After all, it’s easy to see what is going to happen with the future population of America’s elderly. As the significant number of elderly from the GI Generation die off, the elderly population will become increasingly made up of the tiny remnants of the Silent Generation for the next twenty years. In other words, there aren’t many customers in the generational parade moving toward the assisted-living industry. But don’t tell them that!

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