In the "Aging Gracefully" article, the women live in the Marys Woods Retirement Community. It is (as you might guess from the name) a place for the well-heeled to retire. As per the community's site:
Hidden along the Willamette River in Lake Oswego, Mary's Woods offers 19 acres of beautiful villas and apartments in a retirement community lifestyle surrounded by the charm, spirit and natural splendor of this historic area.
This is the place for the better off, and those who had the good luck to have saved, and cashed out on those savings, before the corporate piranhas ate up their retirement plans, and they were able to cash out their personal "investment banks" (homes) before the corporate finance raiders got to them.
Somehow, I suspect that fewer and fewer will be "aging gracefully," nor retiring to places with 19 acre grounds with hiking paths. More likely they will join their children in the debtor's prisons that are likely to reemerge on the landscape.
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