Retiring in a lower-priced town? (Boston, Natick: transplants, 2014, renting)

[msRB311]

Pretend to be young when you're not. You said baby boomers don't like to admit they're old by going to an old peoples home or complex. Someone else was saying their MiL is living in a home she can't afford and it's causing a strain on her kids.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by Beachcomber4

CCH began a collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital in recent years.

Many of the specialists on Cape are part of the Beth Israel Deaconess group. That expansion began when that hospital took over the hospital in Plymouth (the old name escapes me).

The Dana Farber collaboration has been great for the Cape. Patients can be confident they are being managed amd seen in Boston but receive some treatments on Cape.

Huh. Last time I looked recently, there were a few physicians in Sandwich who were part of the Beth Israel empire and that was it. I was looking searching from West Portugal so I probably wasn't picking up Falmouth & Hyannis. I was seeing Plymouth, a bit in Brockton, Milton, and Dedham.


Near as I can tell, all the regional hospitals work with Dana Farber for oncology. Same as bouncing the tough pediatric cases to Boston Children's. I have a god kid whose mother did the high speed ambulance ride from Truro for a premature birth and he's 29.

[CaseyB]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Pretend to be young when you're not. You said baby boomers don't like to admit they're old by going to an old peoples home or complex. Someone else was saying their MiL is living in a home she can't afford and it's causing a strain on her kids.

Many baby boomers are still working (youngest ones are 55). They aren't going to a "home".

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Pretend to be young when you're not. You said baby boomers don't like to admit they're old by going to an old peoples home or complex. Someone else was saying their MiL is living in a home she can't afford and it's causing a strain on her kids.

No. He said "perceived as old". I'm 63. I ski 100 days per year. I have no interest in The Villages in Florida where I ride around in a golf cart and complain.

[msRB311]

I'm not the one who said Boomers like to pretend they're not getting old...

anyhoo

[gf2020]

Originally Posted by CaseyB

Many baby boomers are still working (youngest ones are 55). They aren't going to a "home".

Technically, the youngest baby boomers are 57. Baby Boom Generation being defined as those born in 1946 - 1964.

I'm 55 and I am definitely Generation X, born 1965 - 1980.

[robr2]

Originally Posted by Beachcomber4

CCH began a collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital in recent years.

Many of the specialists on Cape are part of the Beth Israel Deaconess group. That expansion began when that hospital took over the hospital in Plymouth (the old name escapes me).

The Dana Farber collaboration has been great for the Cape. Patients can be confident they are being managed amd seen in Boston but receive some treatments on Cape.

That was originally Jordan Hospital. BTW, Beth Israel Deaconess is now known as Beth Israel Lahey Health after they merged in 2019. BIDMC is the name of the combined Longwood hospitals.

Dana Farber has collaborations with a number of hospitals in that it provides expedited care at DF for those hospital's patients if needed. DF does not operate any of the facilities at the local hospitals. DF and Brigham also have a collaborative that allows Mass General Brigham patients expedited care as well. They work so closely that MGB runs DF's medical records system.

https://www.dana-farber.org/about-us/collaborations/

These collaborations and affiliations are part of the vast medical industrial complex. There are few independent medical providers left. There are affiliations/associations/collaboratives through hospitals, universities, specialty clinics, physicians, etc. and often tie disparate institutions to one another.

[robr2]

Originally Posted by gf2020

Technically, the youngest baby boomers are 57. Baby Boom Generation being defined as those born in 1946 - 1964.

I'm 55 and I am definitely Generation X, born 1965 - 1980.

I was born in 1964 and don't consider myself a boomer nor a Gen X'er. I missed out on the free love of the 60's, Studio 54/cocaine scene of the 70's, and the greed is good of the 80's and didn't play video games and ride in minivans. We (1954-1964) have been termed Generation Jones and most of us are stuck between paying off our kids' college and helping to care for elderly parents.

[johngolf]

Originally Posted by Jimrob1

My sister is contemplating leaving Mass upon retirement which she is of age now. She is thinking Florida but she is afraid of not having the better healthcare in Mass. I live in Fla and I can tell you the difference is severe. Especially finding Specialist or getting timely appts in areas of Fla. I'd really look at other towns in Mass before deciding on other states. Many times other regions of the USA are cheaper for a reason. Reasons that might make them impractical as we age

FL is loaded with good doctors and medical care for the needs of the elderly as so many of them live there. I would stack some hospitals and physicians in SC up against some of the finer ones in MA.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by johngolf

FL is loaded with good doctors and medical care for the needs of the elderly as so many of them live there. I would stack some hospitals and physicians in SC up against some of the finer ones in MA.

Not in any ranking I've ever seen.


MGH generally makes the top-5. Brigham generally makes the top-20. In the "south", the only hospitals that make the top-20 are Vanderbilt in Nashville, Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and Houston Methodist. Raleigh-Durham and Atlanta have strong hospitals.