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Finding the right senior living community can feel overwhelming, especially for families already balancing caregiving, careers, and children. In this episode of The Sandwich Generation Survival Guide, Candace Dellacona sits down with LizPearce of U.S. News & World Report to discuss how families can make more informed decisions about senior care.
Liz explains the differences between independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing, and shares how the trusted U.S. News & World Report ratings use government data and resident and family feedback to help families evaluate quality, safety, and overall resident experience. Together, they explore the growing challenges facing caregivers and offer practical guidance for navigating senior care with greater confidence.
- (00:00) - Podcast Intro
- (00:19) - Welcome and Guest Introduction
- (01:23) - Ratings Origins and Trends
- (03:11) - Why Lived Experience Matters
- (07:34) - Feels Like Home Factors
- (09:14) - Loneliness Versus Independence
- (13:33) - Avoiding Common Mistakes
- (16:40) - Solo Agers Planning Ahead
- (21:46) - Home Care Versus Community
- (26:58) - Cost Value and Transparency
- (29:17) - Future of Senior Living
- (31:12) - Wrap Up and Resources
- (32:16) - Subscribe and Follow
To learn more about U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Senior Living Ratings, visit https://health.usnews.com/best-senior-living.
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Welcome to The Sandwich Generation Survival Guide, where we explore the challenges and strategies of navigating life caught between work demands and supporting our loved ones while maintaining our own well-being. Join us in this dynamic podcast series as we uncover the complexities individuals face balancing multiple roles in the modern world. Our host, Candace Dellacona, shares personal experiences and professional insights to guide listeners through this complex journey.
Senior Living Best Practices with Liz Pearce
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Podcast Intro
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Candace Dellacona: Welcome, survivors. If you're facing the emotional and overwhelming task of finding senior living for a parent or an aging loved one, this episode is going to break it all down for you. It will help you feel more informed, empowered, and less alone in making one of the most important decisions a family can face.
Welcome and Guest Introduction
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Candace Dellacona: Welcome to the Sandwich Generation Survival Guide. I am your host, Candace Dellacona. Today's guest is Liz Pearce, who is the director of senior living at US News and World Report. Liz is here because she's going to impart us with tons of information on the newest report, The Best of Senior Living Ratings.
Liz has helped refine how families approach one of the most emotional and important decisions they'll ever make, which is finding the right care and the community for their aging loved ones. So for anyone in the sandwich generation, Liz's work is a game changer. Welcome, Liz.
Liz Pearce: Thanks so much, Candace. It's great to be here today.
Candace Dellacona: So happy to have you. I know our listeners are probably chomping at the bit, and they want to know everything you know about the best senior living ratings for 2026.
Ratings Origins and Trends
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Candace Dellacona: You are now, I think, in the fifth year of having released the ratings. So to start, what do you think has changed most dramatically in the senior living space since you first started five years ago?
Liz Pearce: Yeah that's a great question, Candace. And I'm new to my senior living journey since the time I started this role. US News & World Report released the inaugural edition of Best Senior Living in 2022. I'm sure we'll get into this a little bit more, but all of the kind of data that goes into the ratings, it comes from a national survey of residents and their family members. As you can imagine, in 2022, we were really just coming off the heels of COVID which produced so many challenges for seniors, for caregivers, for senior living communities. Everyone was severely, severely impacted by the pandemic. Five years later, thank goodness that time is behind us and really we're entering a time when the need for senior care is greater than it's ever been.
I'm sure you've heard these stats. I'm sure your audience is well familiar, but this is the first year when that eighty plus population is beginning to turn eighty. That population of seniors age eighty plus is expected to grow by almost twenty-five percent in the next five years and to nearly double by 2035.
So that population of folks who need that extra community care, support some of the lifestyle services that senior living provides has never been greater. At the same time as you know, on the sandwich generation the availability of family caregivers is in many ways lower than it's ever been, with more and more families having two working adults who are working to support, the needs of the family economically and not available to do some of that caregiving that might have traditionally been done by one stay-at-home family member.
Why Lived Experience Matters
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Candace Dellacona: Yeah, and, looking at what you are bringing up, which is how you got the data, and I think that's really important for people to know that U.S. News & World Report has analyzed more than a half a million surveys from not only the people receiving the care, but the families who are choosing the care, are the observers of the care.
So why does U.S. News & World Report put such weight in the lived experience? Why is that so critical? And what are the sort of factors maybe that you're hearing from people that might actually surprise families who are starting this process to even begin to think about it? 'Cause as you point out, Liz, I think what we hear from listeners is that there's not enough time, and we are all drowning in the sandwich generation.
For many families, finding appropriate, safe, and nice living situations can become imperative for a family. So what are those things that you're hearing from families that might surprise those just starting out on this journey?
Liz Pearce: Yeah, that's a great question, and there's so much to unpack in what you just asked. But I think, one thing we see at US News & World Report and when we see people coming to our site is a lot of families, a lot of seniors, a lot of caregivers, until they start on this journey, they really don't know what they don't know.
And you'll hear a lot of people who have some idea of institutionalization or a nursing home or a facility in their mind when they're approaching this journey. And so one of the things that I think, families early in the journey often need to educate themselves about are really what are the different types of senior living and long-term care that are available to me?
And we see a lot of folks coming to the US News website with questions about, how much does this cost? What types of care does my insurance cover? And so maybe just, at the outset of this conversation, it would be helpful to break down the different types of senior living and senior care ratings that US News produces because there is a real difference there that I think it's important for folks to be aware of.
Candace Dellacona: Yeah, great. So for those listening, obviously there's the highest level of intervention, which is a long-term care facility. I think the short term is a SNF, which is a skilled nursing facility. That's a nursing home. And then from there you have an assisted living facility, which is a facility that is community-based, but services can be provided in that setting. And I think then the step-down would be independent living. Is that correct, Liz?
Liz Pearce: Yep, that's exactly right. And I didn't ask the question that way to, to put you on the spot, but I did wanna make sure that we were clarifying, because US News & World Report, we provide ratings and information across all those different levels of care. But kinda to bring it back to your question there's different data that we use when we're rating different types of care.
So for that skilled nursing whether it's short-term care or long-term care in a nursing home type of facility, we really lean into data that's produced by CMS. Medicare and Medicaid will pay for a stay in a nursing home or skilled nursing facility. As you know, Medicare will cover that SNF, that short-term rehabilitation and Medicaid in many cases can cover longer term care in a nursing home facility.
And the data that CMS makes available there that we lean into is about staffing, the amount of staffing, the type of staffing the qualifications of the folks who are doing the staffing. It's about health outcomes, so for short-term care, it's, how many people recovered, how many preventable hospitalizations or falls were there, and similarly on the long-term care side.
And there's also some measures in there about inspections, health and safety ratings. Senior living space, that's looking at three care types: assisted living, independent living, and memory care. Often people are going into those settings when they have a not such an acute level of need, not such a high level of medical care that they need, and it really is for a lot of people a new way of looking at home.
And that's why the resident experience and the family member experience comes in so much there because those outcomes data, that healthcare data is a little bit less available certainly, but also plays a little bit less of a role in somebody's overall satisfaction with their quality of life in one of these communities.
So that's kinda one area. You asked what people are confusing about, what's surprising to people. Just even just understanding what level of care to be looking at for when they're starting that journey can be confusing for folks, so it's always something we like to clarify.
Feels Like Home Factors
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Liz Pearce: And then I think, if you look at the senior living ratings in particular the ones that we just released, assisted living, independent living, memory care the survey asks about a variety of factors that we know are really important to people's overall satisfaction for assisted living and memory care.
Obviously, it asks about people's satisfaction with the caregiving. A lot of weight goes into their satisfaction with the management and the staff because those are really the people on the front lines who you're gonna be interacting with every day and are responsible for a lot of what that lived daily experience is.
The ratings look at satisfaction with food and dining, with activities and enrichment with the transportation provided. And importantly, they ask about a dimension that we internally kinda call feels like home. It's are you finding ways to be engaged? Are you finding people who you feel like really care about you?
Are you finding meaning and purpose in your daily activities? Those are some of the kinds of more aspects of living in that community-based setting that the ratings are trying to get to.
Candace Dellacona: Just going into that a little bit, Liz, that you've been able to encapsulate those types of metrics, which would probably be described as like softer skills, if you will, or the softer sort of metrics, but can really be transformative for a family and the person moving into a place like this.
Because I think that's the fear that most people have, that it's not going to feel good, it's not gonna feel like home. They want to be connected, and they're not gonna be connected. So I love that that is something that you've really taken, significant effort in trying to capture.
Loneliness Versus Independence
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Liz Pearce: Yeah, and just maybe one more kinda interesting observation on that point is, we do a lot of user research, of consumer research, a lot of surveys as we're looking to improve the ratings, improve the product experience on the US News and World Report site. And, a recent user survey that we did, we kinda asked people, where are you in your journey?
Are you feeling, like you have a strong attachment to aging in place and staying in your current home? Are you excited about, moving into a new community? What's making you feel in those different ways? A lot of the responses that are describing an attachment to that home setting is people really wanting to maintain a sense of independence, control over their daily activities.
If you think about this generation that's turning 80, the events they lived through some of them, my, my own grandfather, was around during the Great Depression. There's that sense of wanting to be independent and to do it all. At the same time, another survey we ran a couple of years ago found that almost 70% of seniors reported being lonely a majority of the time before they had moved into senior living.
So there's really this balance between the desire for independence and privacy and the one side and, some of the risk of isolation and loneliness and some of the negative consequences that can come along with that kind of on the other side. So we really see you know, there's a lot of dynamics, a lot of pushes and pulls as people make this decision, but that's definitely one that's been standing out to us recently.
Candace Dellacona: There are lots of studies done on loneliness in seniors, so it's really interesting that that statistic is so significant because 70% is a super majority of seniors feeling that way.
Liz Pearce: Yeah.
Candace Dellacona: So then, for those of us in the sandwich generation looking at it through the sandwich generation lens, what you point out is that for those of us who are talking to our aging loved ones about this decision, it can feel overwhelming. It's certainly emotional. That's exactly what your research has revealed to us. What has the survey if it has, what has it revealed to be the maybe a bigger pain point for most families in the moment? Has the survey been able to reveal that? What are most people worried about? Is it the connection issue? Is it not feeling like home?
Liz Pearce: I think that's a great question, and I think we look at it from a couple of different angles because that Best Senior Living Survey, we're talking to people who've already made the decision to move, and they're currently living in a community. And I think one thing you asked why reviews and resident perspectives are so important when you brought up that half a million respondents number.
One of the things that we hear from families all the time is, "I wanna make a good decision. This is where I'm gonna be living for, the significant portion probably of the rest of my life. This is where my loved one is gonna be in a time when they need more care than potentially they've ever needed."
So there is that emotional component, and people want to make the best decision they can, and people want to get information from a source they can trust. And a lot-- A big part of that is we see people looking to online reviews because that's one of the only sources of firsthand experience that is available for some of these decisions.
But Candace, I'm sure as you and I both know, often people are motivated to leave a review because they've had some kind of like outstanding experience often a negative one, sometimes a positive one.
Candace Dellacona: Two extremes.
Liz Pearce: Yep. But it's really missing out on that layer of the lived experience, daily experience of residents.
And that's why we think the Best Senior Living Ratings that are looking at a representative sample of residents and their family members, asking them about the past year of their experience, can bridge that gap between people want that, that firsthand lived experience, but they also want representative information and not something that's gonna be so heavily skewed by a single point in time.
Candace Dellacona: Absolutely, and I think that's why people rely so heavily on the US News & World Report data in general. So it's amazing that you're five years into it because, I think we are all looking at data. I think we're a generation of data, so having a neutral third party, look at- If you're in a long-term care facility, safety issues and fall issues, something that's, highly based on metrics versus, the feeling of belonging, which is more anecdotal, and you'll get in that information too.
So it's an enormous undertaking.
Avoiding Common Mistakes
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Candace Dellacona: But what do you see... if there are any, are there common mistakes that families are making when choosing a senior living community in that when you're going through the data, do you see any sort of themes that maybe the report answers for them in a way that families can then avoid those mistakes when they're choosing a senior living community particularly for an assisted living community in general?
Because I think assisted living communities, at least my experience, it is more of a choice, whereas oftentimes with a nursing home, a crisis has happened, and so the decisions are made a little quickly and you have maybe three days to decide where you're moving your loved one, where a senior living choice is definitely or appears to me to be more intentional.
So what are the mistakes maybe that you're seeing that families are making, and how can they avoid those mistakes when making the choice?
Liz Pearce: Yeah. That's a good question. It's not something that we ask about directly in the survey, but I would respond by saying, the areas that we see that are most highly correlated with overall satisfaction with a community are for assisted living and memory care, the caregiving, and across all three care types, the staff and the management.
And so I think It's not-- I wouldn't call it a mistake. I wouldn't call it exactly what you asked about. But I think, for families who can have that luxury of that extra time, could be up to even up to 30 days, it could be up to a year if you're looking at independent living, that people are making those decisions.
Families have the opportunity to use that time to really tour the community, get to meet some key members of the staff who they're gonna be interacting with on a day-to-day basis speak to existing residents about their experiences, maybe as part of the tour process go to the community for a sample meal or an event.
And, I would just say, where it's possible, these are to your point, options that people have when they're researching senior living that, that may not be available if you're at the stage where you're looking for a nursing home or skilled nursing. And that's a really terrific opportunity that families can take advantage of.
Candace Dellacona: Those are really practical steps. I think, starting at the beginning, which is what you said, educating yourself about the type of care that's available, and then when you pinpoint it, really going to the facilities to look around yourself. But I think you're right.
I think administration in particular can make such a big impact on how families feel that their loved ones are protected, 'cause, the other part of this, and like what we haven't said, is that oftentimes people are moving into these long-term care facilities, these assisted living or independent living facilities because they're becoming more vulnerable.
And vulnerability can mean a lot of different things: safety, obviously, financial safety, so really putting some emphasis on thinking who's running the facility and what are the rules which kind of brings me into like we're talking about it from the lens of sandwich generation members, which infers that there's a support system.
Solo Agers Planning Ahead
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Candace Dellacona: I actually did a podcast episode with Gerda Maisel, who is a concierge physician, and one of the things that she talked a lot about, Liz, were solo agers. So we're hearing a lot more about solo agers. For our listeners who haven't heard the episode, a solo ager is a person who is navigating the aging process without a partner or a spouse, without children, or maybe without nearby children.
So how do you see the most recent ratings from U.S. News & World Report help those solo agers make the decisions confidently on their own?
Liz Pearce: Yeah, that's a great question, and I'm glad you asked because we do see even in the last five years, I would say, we see a lot of solo searchers or self-searchers, people who are looking for themselves or themselves and a spouse doing their research on US News & World Report. And I think one of the things that we see with that kind of type of consumer who's doing that research is they're doing it because they want to be educating themselves ahead of time while they aren't in a crisis situation.
They wanna do that for themselves or themselves and a family member. They wanna understand what the different options are, what they're set up for financially, start to, have some of those conversations, do some of those budgeting exercises to get ahead of needing to make a decision to move right away.
And starting to wanna get familiar with the options in their area so that when they're making a decision to your point, it's not made in crisis based on limited information, but really setting themselves and their family members who might not be nearby up to have had some of those conversations, which can be really difficult to have maybe visited some of those communities or at least gotten a sense of which ones, in their area have a good reputation are recommended by word of mouth, have good online ratings and reviews and just to be in a place where there's a little bit less fear and uncertainty and a little bit more of, okay, I know what the options are, I understand where I'm starting from, I understand where I can go and approach it maybe a little with a little bit more of a pragmatic approach that way.
Candace Dellacona: I think you're right too. Solo agers don't have that sort of natural built-in support system, so it would seem to me that they would have different priorities going into a community like this because of that. But let's go back to the sort of emphasis on, quality of life.
And what I find so interesting, particularly for our generation and maybe, those just above us or our aging loved ones, maybe our parents, not so much our grandparents, why do you think topics like the way the food tastes or, how many activities there are, why do you think these lifestyle factors have become a higher priority to this generation than maybe in years past?
Liz Pearce: I'm not sure that I could confidently say any one reason, but I do think, we're seeing life expectancy increase. We're seeing this huge generation of boomers s- start to be moving into this stage. And I think I mentioned that, that survey we did just asking people about loneliness, and one of the things-- Just some of the things that we found, we asked people about, how their life was before and after a move.
And we really did see meaningful increases amongst our survey respondents in the people who were finding meaning and purpose in their daily activities, not just having those like care or basic nutrition needs met, but really finding, again, meaning and purpose in their daily activities. We saw a huge increase in the number of people who reported sharing a meal with a friend at least a couple of days a week, engaging in physical activity at least once a week, and taking part in at least one ac-activity they enjoy at least once a week.
So if you think about, not just care needs not just maintaining that, that level of what you need, but really increasing your well span and increasing the the enjoyment you're able to take in daily life over, a period of however long that might be. I think that some of these lifestyle factors, as you call them really people see them really making a difference.
Candace Dellacona: And so well span, how would you define that again?
Liz Pearce: Oh, that's-- I think there might be a real definition of that, that I don't have off the top of my head. But just, yep, just thinking about it not just as, lifespan the average life expectancy is X, but how long is the amount of time that I'm gonna be able to do some of those things that I just described, find meaning in my daily activities, share meals with friends have a higher quality of life.
So I think people are looking at how they can gracefully increase the amount of time that they can be taking part in some of those meaningful daily activities.
Candace Dellacona: As humans, what we, what makes it our life good, right? No matter how old you are. So comparing the ratings between the, let's say, assisted living or independent living facility and, talking a little bit about loneliness.
Home Care Versus Community
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Candace Dellacona: US News & World Report also did a whole rating system for home health care.
Liz Pearce: We did.
Candace Dellacona: Which is amazing too, and I encourage everyone to take a look at that as well, because I think that you cannot talk about one without the other. And I think that most families, Liz, are thinking about home health care versus moving into an assisted living. That's one of the first steps. So how should families who are looking into assisted living facilities or independent living facilities think about the decision between staying home with support versus moving into a community, if you will?
And is there like a point in time where a family should say, "Look, this is a question of, the better option." Or has the survey revealed that?
Liz Pearce: Yeah, that's a great question. I should clarify that the home health ratings that we launched this year were in year five of senior living. This is year one of home health so the team is really excited about getting that out there. But the home health ratings do measure, evaluate Medicare-certified home health agencies.
So again, more like nursing homes, but care at home. These are agencies that can provide skilled medical care if it's prescribed after a hospital discharge or by a physician or other healthcare provider. And in some cases they may provide longer term ongoing services. Some of that will be covered by Medicaid, again, depending on the state that somebody finds themselves in.
And when we think about the senior care journey, we don't think about it as linear, step one, step two, from here to there, X or Y. During that senior care journey somebody, a family, a senior might be navigating multiple hospital discharges, stays in rehab, times when they need some more help to get back to where they were, and there's no one right way or single path when it comes to how a family, a senior is gonna layer and stage those extra care needs.
So when we think about it at US News, we think about it from the perspective of how can we be there for families at as many stages as possible in this journey. And when it comes to home healthcare, I think one thing that, that people don't always know is that kinda post-acute home healthcare, that can be offered to somebody no matter where their home is, whether that's in like their own house or apartment, or even if they're living in an assisted living community.
If you have a loved one who's living in an assisted living community and gets discharged from the hospital in a lot of cases, they can still have home health come in and help them get back to where they were,
Candace Dellacona: Yeah.
Liz Pearce: so that they can go back to living at the level that they were before. Or I could give like the example of my own grandmother was hospitalized a number of times towards the end of her life, and she had a few times when she went from the hospital to that nursing home, skilled nursing stage, and then was able to go back to independent living and kinda maintain at that level.
I know it's not directly answering your question, but I don't think there is one, one way or one point that's gonna be right for every senior and every family.
Candace Dellacona: I agree with you. I think that safety is certainly one of those sort of like watershed moments where, I think it can become quite clear which kind of brings in the emotional side of the decision, right? This isn't just logistics, it's deeply emotional for any family. So from everything you've seen or, from those maybe putting together this data, is there anything that, generally helps families feel a little more confident and less maybe guilty about a transition like this?
And do you have any advice for- those of us in the sandwich generation where we know that a move like this is necessary and they're facing resistance, is there anything that the survey has revealed about that part of it?
Liz Pearce: I don't think that the survey really speaks directly to that part of it. I'll just share anecdotally some of, my, my personal takeaways having, heard from a number of families who are on this journey. Even for the solo ager, it's not a choice that people are making based on one source of information.
It's not a choice that people are only making in isolation by themselves. And I think, you brought up that point of feeling guilty. I think, everybody's trying to do the best they can.
But I would just encourage seniors, families who are in this decision, there's a, there is a wealth of information out there and take advantage of it.
I think, if you think about feeling guilty and what you can do to avoid that, avoid the emotion, I brought it up before, but that flipping that dynamic through kind of pragmatism and preparedness. Do your research online, check out US News & World Report, read other online ratings and reviews, talk to your healthcare provider, get recommendations from friends and family that might be in that situation.
The extent that you can visit the community, trust, your own experience, the senses of your own eyes and ears. What we hear from people is that the more information that they have, whether that's information that they're reading online, information that they're gathering through conversations, information that they're gathering through visits the more kind of bits of evidence that folks are collecting that this might be a good fit, the more that kind of anxiety and guilt can go down.
Candace Dellacona: That's true. I think that's really good advice, honestly. And, I think all of that probably bled into the results of what is revealing itself in the survey.
Cost Value and Transparency
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Candace Dellacona: And, I think, of course, one of the big things that people worry about is the cost. So are you seeing especially in the last now that the survey is five years old, is there greater transparency around pricing than there was?
And, is there a way for families to think about the value of what that care is going to be received versus the cost and maybe are there regional differences or trends that you're seeing, as we're halfway through 2026 at this point?
Liz Pearce: This is a good question. At US News & World Report, we don't collect or publish information that's directly about the costs of the communities that we rate, so we can't point to any direct correlations or trends as it as it relates to cost. But we can, say pretty confidently that questions about cost are some of the key drivers of folks to the US News & World Report website where they're looking for information.
And we do know from again, from kind of behavior on the US News site and some other surveys we've done outside of the Best Senior Living Survey, that it's a major pain point that families are experiencing, and that they're really looking for that transparency from the senior living communities in the industry.
It can be really hard for families to find just even basic information like, is this in my price range? The sandwich generation time is short. Why do I have to call all of these places? Why do I have to put my my name in a box, to get this information?
So we see consumers really value and start to trust those communities that are meeting them where they are when it comes to pricing and costs.
And we do see, one of the questions that we ask about in the survey is value and whether people are satisfied with the value that they get for what they pay. And, some of those factors that I mentioned that are highly correlated with overall satisfaction are the same factors that are highly correlated with value, especially especially that, that question those questions that get into satisfaction with the management and the staff.
We really see that those are key drivers of residents' perception that they're getting a good value is if they are satisfied with with their interactions with the management of a community. Yep.
Candace Dellacona: Yeah. It certainly informs, how good they feel about the facility, and therefore if they feel good about the care that they're receiving and where they're living and the food that they're eating, their satisfaction with management is probably higher.
Future of Senior Living
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Candace Dellacona: Maybe looking ahead to future surveys, where do you see senior living evolving over the next, I don't know, three to five years?
And is there anything that you see that families who have this on the horizon should be preparing for now other than, as you point out, the visits and things like that? Where do you think the future of senior living is?
Liz Pearce: Yeah. I think I think a couple of things. You mentioned advice for families who see this on the horizon. I would say again, just my personal advice I think there's a lot of value in getting out there and doing some of that homework. We talked about the increasing population.
It takes a while for new senior living communities to be built. And so I think it's a good idea for families to understand what their options are in their local areas and kinda get ahead of some of that early research.
But I think, as the senior population continues to grow and life expectancy continues to increase there is a desire to remain at home and to get some of those benefits, the community, the meaning and purpose in my daily life, sharing a meal with a friend, engaging in activities that you enjoy.
And so I, I wonder whether, over the next three to five years, we'll see more crossover between that care at home and senior living communities, more options for people to transition into full community life, maybe by starting out by, going to a community for a meal, going to a community to join some events, getting some of that care in their home so they're starting to develop that community before they're ready to fully transition out of their home.
Candace Dellacona: Yeah, I actually love that. I think, as they say, necessity is the, the beginning of invention. And that the more seniors there are, the more they demand, and rightfully demand, the better options hopefully there will be.
Wrap Up and Resources
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Candace Dellacona: But until we get there, I have to thank you, Liz, and US News & World Report for putting together this data that really takes the mystery out of it for our families.
As you point out, we have no time as sandwich generation members, and it's so overwhelming, it's so emotional. So having a trusted resource that, we've all used US News & World Report for the buying of a car, let's say. When we're thinking about where we're going to house our loved one who is more vulnerable and getting older and needing to be safe, I can't think of a better resource to lean on than US News & World Report.
We're really grateful for you coming on today and breaking down that data for us and for our listeners, Liz. We'll have a link to the report so that they can, seek out the advice and the great data that you've put so much time, effort, and energy in putting together in a way that's totally understandable and relatable and takes the mystery out of it.
Liz Pearce: Oh thank you so much, Candace. I really enjoyed our conversation today.
Candace Dellacona: Yeah, likewise. Thanks again, Liz.
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