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Originally Posted by blueash
I have always thought the Morses' model was that healthy retirees move here. They are active and enjoy and use the golf, tennis, clubs, ate and drank out, shopped etc. There were no retirement homes, there were no memory units. That is all new. The plan was that when you aged to the point you were no longer playing golf and tennis and spending money at the merchants, you moved back to your hometown. No need for much real medical care here. Still no second hospital and a low quality hospital only present.
So, to answer your question... if we don't have doctors, then we die sooner or move away, and the homes turn over which is where they make money and replace the ill with healthy people. Rinse and repeat.
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I agree with you. When I decided to buy here (I'm not a full timer at this point, but I am a Florida resident spending 8-9 months here, and my medical care is all here now), I saw it as a place for my "active retirement years", but not necessarily where I will "age in place" if I live a lot of years after my activity level has been forced to slow down to the point I can't use enough of the amenities to make sense for me to continue to pay for them.
One would think that if a large percent of the people do wind up living here into their deep years of aging and infirmity, that the market for those services will drive development of the facilities and staff needed to provide them. It took time for the market to attract Walmart, Sam's Club and Costco, but it did eventually.
I don't see why it won't work that way for aging care unless there is just a shortage of caregivers, but that would likely be a national issue, and moving somewhere else would be unlikely to solve it.