I started looking at senior apartment sharing when I was managing a retirement community. I noticed that one of the main reasons for seniors to move to a retirement community was that they were lonely, they may have lost a spouse or they had just become bored living by themselves. Another reason was they were afraid of a medical emergency and being alone with no one to help them.

Their children were concerned about their eating habits, personal attention to their own care and their mental well being. I have had adult children call and say that their mom or dad was continually calling them and they need to find some relief. I told them their parent was probably lonely. They were looking for answers to the problem. I told them what I had seen in past years is that if they move the parent to a retirement community it might change what was happening.

People that are lonely when living by themselves get bored and want someone to talk to. They call the children, but the children lead busy lives and have their own families to take care of, something had to change for the adult children.

I have seen seniors in a retirement community walk the floor in the afternoon and evening looking for something to do. There were things to do but they decided not to take part in the activity because they had no friend at the activity.

I wondered why people would not want to find a friend to share an apartment. They would have someone go to the mall with, eat with, go to a movie with, go to a dance or just go for a drive with. They would have someone to talk to and if a medical emergency happened someone would be there. Most of the time one person can drive and has a car. It made perfect sense to me to have some one around to talk to in your apartment when you had nothing else to keep you busy.

I have also seen sisters that lived together that were so happy and doing things together. It was wonderful to see the friendship and the fun they had together. They went shopping, out to eat, to a movie and enjoyed things that a single person would not want to do by themselves.

A shared senior apartment is the best possible way to make a parent or good friend happy with the life they live when they lose their life partner. Pets are comforting, but they can't talk to you. New senior resort lifestyles are an easy way to have all the things life has to offer and the way you want it.