Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life

Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life

Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life

Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life

Paperback

$19.95 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

Wondering where to live in your later years? This strategic and thoughtful guide is aimed at anyone looking to determine the best place to call home during the second half of life.

Place plays a significant but often unacknowledged role in health and happiness. The right place elevates personal well-being. It can help promote purpose, facilitate human connection, catalyze physical activity, support financial health, and inspire community engagement. Conversely, the wrong place can be detrimental to health, as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted. In Right Place, Right Time, Ryan Frederick argues that where you live matters enormously—especially during the second half of your life.

Frederick, the CEO of SmartLiving 360 and a recognized thought leader on the intersection of place and healthy aging, provides you with tools to evaluate your living situation, ensuring that you weigh all the necessary factors to make a sound decision that optimizes your current and future well-being. He explores the pros and cons of different living options, from remaining in your current home to downsizing, intergenerational living, co-housing, senior living, and more. Along the way, he helps readers answer important questions, including "Are you already in the right place?" and "In what areas does your current place not align with your needs and desires?" The rest of the book helps you to unpack specific options for place, beginning with considerations for regions and neighborhoods and then looking at specific housing models. It also focuses on how housing is changing, particularly from a technology, health, and health care perspective. The book closes by challenging the reader to develop a discipline of choosing the right place at the right time.

Combining real-life stories about people selecting places to live with design thinking principles and interactive tools, Right Place, Right Time will appeal to empty nesters, retirees, solo agers, and even adult children seeking ways to support their parents and loved ones.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781421442303
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 10/12/2021
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 323,139
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Ryan Frederick is the CEO of SmartLiving 360, a consulting and real estate development firm that specializes in housing and healthy aging. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Bipartisan Policy Center Health and Housing Task Force. He is an Encore Public Voices Fellow, and his work and insights have been cited in Forbes, the Washington Post, and Environments for Aging, among other outlets.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Paul Irving
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Why Place Matters in the Age of Longevity
Part I. Are You in the Right Place for Now?
Chapter 1. Place as a Key Component of Successful Aging
Chapter 2. Evaluating Whether You Are in the Right Place
Chapter 3. Moving from Aging in Place to Living in Community
Part II. Where Is the Right Place for You?
Chapter 4. Regions, States, and Metro Areas
Chapter 5. Neighborhood and Communities
Part III. What Is the Right Place for You?
Chapter 6. Single-Family Housing
Chapter 7. Apartments
Chapter 8. Age-Restricted Housing
Chapter 9. Senior Living
Chapter 10. Emerging Options, from Cohousing to Tiny Homes
Chapter 11. Living with or near Family
Part IV. The Evolution of Place
Chapter 12. Place as a Hub for Technology
Chapter 13. Place as a Hub for Health
Part V. Taking Action
Chapter 14. Making the Most of Your Current Place
Chapter 15. Selecting a New Place
Conclusion. Choosing the Right Place at the Right Time
Appendix: Personal Dashboards
Resources
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

Ted Lucas

Among the many financial and life planning implications of increasing longevity, there is perhaps nothing more important than a clear roadmap for future living arrangements. Ryan Frederick's comprehensive, clear, and pragmatic book is an exceptional resource for individuals and financial advisors in evaluating options and making a well-informed decision in this critical area.

Maria T. Brown

Ryan Frederick helps people in the second half of their life to make decisions—particularly as related to place—that optimize their chances of living a long, healthy life.

Chip Conley

Creating a new roadmap at midlife involves choosing the best place to live. Right Place, Right Time is an indispensable guide to understanding the importance of place in one's well-being and determining the right place at a given time in life's journey.

Joseph Coughlin

"Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz said it best, there is no place like home and Ryan Frederick has delivered an accessible, thorough, and timely volume that will become the go to source for everyone deciding where that home will be to live their best life tomorrow."

Ken Dychtwald

Today's retirees are radically rethinking the role of home. Right Place, Right Time implores readers to think deeply about the role of place and take action to make the most of life's third age.

Henry Cisneros

Ryan Frederick has correctly identified concerns and highlighted solutions for the millions of people who want to live independently with dignity for as long as they can.

Peter Rummell

As a real estate developer, I know the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing. Ryan Frederick delivers an accessible and strategic resource to help individuals, like myself, plan for a longer life and thrive in the process. At the same time, I expect Right Place, Right Time to inspire developers to create better, more innovative places as our society ages.

From the Publisher

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy said it best: there's no place like home. Ryan Frederick has delivered an accessible, thorough, and timely volume that will become the go-to source for everyone deciding where that home will be to live their best life tomorrow.
—Joseph F. Coughlin, Director, MIT AgeLab, author of The Longevity Economy: Unlocking the World's Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market

Joseph F. Coughlin

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy said it best: there's no place like home. Ryan Frederick has delivered an accessible, thorough, and timely volume that will become the go-to source for everyone deciding where that home will be to live their best life tomorrow.

David S. Schless

A practical book that will help older adults better understand the numerous issues surrounding where one chooses to live and whether one's home is optimal given the circumstances. Ryan Frederick's professional background in housing and related fields makes him a uniquely qualified writer on this topic.

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews