Hope for the Best and Plan for the Worst
Can You Age-in-Place in YOUR Home?

The Western Rural states are aging. It is expected that by 2025,  Montana’s population will be the fourth oldest state in the union. It’s also estimated that by 2030, Montana will be one of ten states in the country to have more people over the age of 65 than under the age of 18, and it will be one of only six states to have 25 percent of its population aged 65 and older.

Policy makers are reshaping Medicare; politicians are trying to protect Social Security... but what are each of us doing to be sure that we can age-in-place in our own homes? Each day, 10,000 Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) are celebrating their 65th birthday and joining the ranks of “older adults.”

RuralConnections - A publication of the Western Rural Development Center, Spring 2016