SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- College isn’t just for high school graduates anymore. Baby boomers are flocking to campuses these days, both to study and to live.
“People today aren’t interested in sitting in a rocking chair on the porch and watching the sun go up and down,” said Andrew Carle, director of assisted living and senior housing administration at George Mason University.
Carle says the boomers want active, intellectually stimulating and intergenerational environments. And they’re heading in record numbers to retirement villages on or very near college campuses.
“They don’t want to be any farther away from the campus than the students are if they’re trying to access the sporting venues or the theater or audit some classes.”
Experts predict these types of communities will be one of the fastest growing single segments in the senior housing and retirement industry in the next 20 years.
In California, the number of 50- to 64-year-old students climbed more than 60 percent during the last 10 years.
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