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[quote=”maravilla”]why not move into The Villages in Florida if you want an all-inclusive retirement camp? you could have your little golf cart to mosey around the property in. why move here? oh, yeah, i forgot. because it’s cheaper. there’s a nice gringo compound at Lake Chapala, Mexico. they sit around all day waiting for happy hour, then get drunk and make fools of themselves. they stay to themselves, entertain themselves, all within their little camp. that would be my definition of pure hell. and i know a lot of active retirement age gringos who think the same way.[/quote]
Fla would be the last place Id find of interest…too hot too many gringos lol. Mexico..too many banditos….Im either saying in Houston or moving to CR…. not in a rush to decide…depends to some extent on US politics which may, I emphasize may be changing. I have no children so a place where I can live now that Im active and stay in my own home with nursing health later if needed is my concept for what might appeal to a broad audience. Having sufficent nurse coverage available for 24/7 when needed appears a challenge that a shared pool of nurses in a community might address. I have spoken of the concept before and found some interest. The concept is a single family home focused compound with common facilities focused on longer term health care needs to allow individuals to live in their own home as they age with access to health care at home. Concepts are just that, if there is a market for a concept, the key is really execution in my judgment.
i know two people who recently lost a loved one and both of these families had very good round-the-clock in-home care for a fraction of what it would{ve cost in the States. there are plenty of qualified nurses and nurses aides in CR to do this work. one of my neighbor´s had a registered nurse for $10 an hour, and my other friend was paying about $3.00 an hour for someoneg without a fullblown nursing degree but who could do basic health management duties and personal care. a friend of mine who does this kind of work in the States get $375 for an 8 hour shift.
[quote=”maravilla”]i know two people who recently lost a loved one and both of these families had very good round-the-clock in-home care for a fraction of what it would{ve cost in the States. there are plenty of qualified nurses and nurses aides in CR to do this work. one of my neighbor´s had a registered nurse for $10 an hour, and my other friend was paying about $3.00 an hour for someoneg without a fullblown nursing degree but who could do basic health management duties and personal care. a friend of mine who does this kind of work in the States get $375 for an 8 hour shift.[/quote]
Thank you! This is what we have worried about in thinking of moving to CR…he is 82 and I am 74, and we know that some time in the not-toodiatant future we will need that kind of care. Good to know it works! Is this true all over CR?
Yes, these rates seem to be more or less, the same all over the country. And, in most cases I would expect that someone offering just the personal care, would be enough.
I was on [i]’the receiving end'[/i] of such care for two months and had no complaints, whatsoever.*I would add that the original post was regarding ‘Founding a community of retirees’ has been offered in many planning stages, by many developers and have been discarded because it just hasn’t caught on.
Those of us who moved here, I would presume, chose to live individually amongst the Ticos, whether in an apartment or in our own home and not ‘trying to live’ likewe could if we moved to a retirement mecca like Florida.
And you could ‘bet’ that if one did choose to live in a [i]’community of retirees'[/i] the cost for this type ‘personal care’ would not be the same.[quote=”costaricafinca”]*I would add that the original post was regarding ‘Founding a community of retirees’ has been offered in many planning stages, by many developers and have been discarded because it just hasn’t caught on.[/quote]
I think it’s about to catch on. I hear that C.R. is realizing the benefits of catering to the huge aging US baby boomers. I probably have another 15 years before retirement, but I’m looking at C.R. now. My version of retirement is starting a small business in C.R. to keep me busy and productive.
[quote=”dmarcelop”]I think it’s about to catch on. I hear that C.R. is realizing the benefits of catering to the huge aging US baby boomers.[/quote]
Sounds like time to be moving on. I didn’t come to Costa Rica to exist American style in a gated and walled in codo complex and I don’t care for the typical Yuppie games.
I have more interest in doing something constructive.
There was an article in either Last Thursdays La Nacion or last weeks Tico Times about such a development being built near Liberia with a CIMA hospital on the grounds. Look at their archives for info.
Waggoneer41 – “Here Here” (as per the British – full agreement with your statement)
[quote=”waggoner41″]Sounds like time to be moving on.
I have more interest in doing something constructive.[/quote]
I think most of you know that the part about moving on is rhetorical but doing something constructive is on the minds of many of us.
I think many of us didn’t really have a chance to pay back society for a comfortable life but Costa Rica offers an opportunity in an environment that we do appreciate.The reported [i]Pacific Plaza[/i] near Liberia, it said to [i]’break ground'[/i] in May, but there are many others [i]’proposed communities’ [/i] that will probably never be actually started much less completed. The one [i]positive[/i] about the Pacific Plaza complex is that it will have CIMA satellite facility there. [i]If[/i] it comes to pass.
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