How Does Your Neighborhood Rate for “Aging in Place?” AARP Offers Livability Index

As outlined by The Washington Post, AARP Public Policy Institute has a new “Livability Index” offered as a way to evaluate factors such as safety, security, ease of getting around, access to health care, and housing affordability.

More intangible factors are also assessed, such as WiFi, farmers’ markets and “public policies that promote successful aging.”

(After following the trauma of the trial in Iowa, I wonder whether “criminal laws on sexual relations between husband and wives if one has dementia” should be added as an express factor?)

For more, read here and here.  Hat Tip to ElderLawGuy Jeffrey Marshall for the pointer.