Availability of medical care - how critical was it in your relocation decisions? (relocate, conversation)
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Oh yes! The availability of good medical care with specialized care is essential for my husband and I, along with reasonably priced housing and taxes, and good public transportation.
We settled in the oldest state with the highest percentage of retirees.
Now that we have been here a few years, I have noticed that new hospitals are being built. We have a dedicated joint replacement center near-by, a cancer center [where I am currently receiving radiation treatment] and new hospitals with the DaVinci robotic surgery suite.
When we retired at ages 50/51, medical care wasn't much of a thought. Now at ages 65/66 we still give it very little thought. We will live where we want and how we want...until we can't.
When it's time to move to that condo next to the hospital, I'm sure there will be a vacancy.
I have no sophisticated medical needs and moved to a rural town that is 24 miles from a decent hospital, which I think is a Level One Trauma. I am car dependent, although there does appear to be a senior van to the hospital/cancer center. I have no illusions about being in a medically ideal place and I know I'm getting older but this is where I want to live.
Back up plan is a CCRC near Denver, four hours away, in case of medical needs or some major frailty or something. I just couldn't see staying back East where I felt so stale and finished just because it's so close to great medical care.
I specifically did not choose Medicare Advantage due to lack of providers. I am seeing my new PCP (I hope) next week. I first looked for women doctors and the first two I looked at are not accepting new patients and do not take Medicare. The third is a young woman who accepts and takes new pts., graduated an excellent med school in 2009 so I figured she's probably sharp and not set in old ways.
'sigh' I have lived to see the day where my doctor's name is "Tiffany." At least it's not some form of "Brittany."
The original post has to do with people who already have serious medical conditions, not just people who worry or fear they may wind up with serious conditions as they age.
Everyone is giving their opinion on health care access as they age, but the opening post is about a young person with an already existing condition. I am talking about young people who do have necessary special medical care as indicated in the opening post.
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ah, I should have read more carefully. Certainly if I had any complex medical needs when I retired, I might have retired earlier and also would have stayed where I was, 30 miles outside Boston. Absolutely.
The third is a young woman who accepts and takes new pts., graduated an excellent med school in 2009 so I figured she's probably sharp and not set in old ways.
When we had Kaiser, where you can supposedly choose your own doctor, I never had the same PCP twice. They were all young women. Five of them left medicine to start a family. The sixth went back to India.
Not saying this will happen to you. But my next PCP will be either a man or a woman past child-bearing age.
I have no sophisticated medical needs and moved to a rural town that is 24 miles from a decent hospital, which I think is a Level One Trauma. I am car dependent, although there does appear to be a senior van to the hospital/cancer center. I have no illusions about being in a medically ideal place and I know I'm getting older but this is where I want to live.
Back up plan is a CCRC near Denver, four hours away, in case of medical needs or some major frailty or something. I just couldn't see staying back East where I felt so stale and finished just because it's so close to great medical care.
I specifically did not choose Medicare Advantage due to lack of providers. I am seeing my new PCP (I hope) next week. I first looked for women doctors and the first two I looked at are not accepting new patients and do not take Medicare. The third is a young woman who accepts and takes new pts., graduated an excellent med school in 2009 so I figured she's probably sharp and not set in old ways.
'sigh' I have lived to see the day where my doctor's name is "Tiffany." At least it's not some form of "Brittany."
BDL, there are four Level I trauma centers in Colorado: 3 in Denver (I work at one of them ) 1 in Colorado Springs. Montrose is a Level III. Grand Junction has a Level II. Here's the list:
well, I haven't "relocated" for retirement but I prefer to live near the med school affiliated medical center in my area. It is also an NCI Cancer Center, and after seeing the varied cancer treatment my late husband got at different hospitals north and south, I would want all my treatment there if I ever needed it.
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) 1 in Colorado Springs. Montrose is a Level III. Grand Junction has a Level II. Here's the list:
