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

Product Description

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.

Review

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

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. — Chip Conley

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. — Ken Dychtwald, PhD

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. — Maria T. Brown

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. — Henry Cisneros

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. — David S. Schless

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. — Ted Lucas

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