[Greg Nelson]

I hear the ambulance quite often..how many people die here each year?

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by Greg Nelson

I hear the ambulance quite often..how many people die here each year?

I'm not sure but if you read the paper they conveniently die in alphabetical order.

[graciegirl]

And they all try not to.

[pivo]

best idea--check the t-times

[kcrazorbackfan]

I have friends that live in Sun City Grand in Surprise, AZ and the saying out there is whenever people hear an ambulance is "there's another golf cart for sale".

[Bonny]

You'll probably just have to count them in the paper.

[pooh]

Sirens aren't always for an ambulance. Fire trucks, police cars as well as ambulances go by with sirens on. See them go by my house which backs to Morse Blvd. Winter brings more people, more traffic, more sirens.

[Greg Nelson]

Our next door neighbor's husband was taken by ambulance yesterday. 3.5 minutes response time! Where we lived in Costa Maya, Mexico for the past 10 years it was 4 plus hours to a good hospital in Cancun. When I left there in late September, after selling our home there, I drove by the small clinic in the village and noticed that their 30 year old ambulance had a flat tire!

[graciegirl]

Many of our villages here have AED's and folks trained to use them. We are all trying very hard to stay alive and enjoy life too.

[zcaveman]

Think positive! I like to think that some of these sirens are for accidents and not deaths.

If they were all deaths, page C-4 would be bigger.

Z

[Chi-Town]

When I was little my mother told my brother and me to say a prayer any time we heard a siren. I'd be praying day and night living here. [emoji6]

[Miles42]

Morbid topic. Live every day, do not dwell on death.

[TrudyM]

Nationally the rate of over 65 deaths is 4% to 5% apparently it varies by state and I couldn't find Florida stats on the net. I read someplace that the villages had a lower rate because the people tend to be more active so they live longer and most are pretty healthy and active when they move here.
So using national stats 100,000 people that's 4,000 a year. So if two to a house on average then 2,000 homes should be up for sale any given year not counting those who move back to be close to kids when they get frail. There appears to be about 400 pre-owned on the market most months at the moment but that includes those who have decided to move within the villages.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Greg Nelson

I hear the ambulance quite often..how many people die here each year?

May I ask, WHY you ask?

[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by TrudyM

Nationally the rate of over 65 deaths is 4% to 5% apparently it varies by state and I couldn't find Florida stats on the net.

I read someplace that the villages had a lower rate because the people tend to be more active so they live longer and most are pretty healthy and active when they move here.

So using national stats 100,000 people that's 4,000 a year. So if two to a house on average then 2,000 homes should be up for sale any given year not counting those who move back to be close to kids when they get frail. There appears to be about 400 pre-owned on the market most months at the moment but that includes those who have decided to move within the villages.

Another factor in a lower death rate in TV would be that chronically, or morbidly sick people would be unlikely to move away from family and their doctors. If you start with a healthier population you will be likely to always have a healthier population, on average.