Ecumen, a provider of senior housing and services, sees the aging of America as an opportunity for substantial innovation in our country. Ecumen CEO Kathryn Roberts cites 10 emerging changes in her new blog post entitled “10 Things Ecumen Sees Changing in an Aging America.” Readers are invited to share what changes they see or want to see in an aging America.

People over 50 currently represent 43 percent of all U.S. households and by 2020, the senior population in American will number 115 million. As Ecumen CEO Kathryn Roberts explains, this rapidly aging group will not be one that stands for being warehoused in an institution or for living in a community without the products and services they want and need.

Among things changing in an aging America are:

* Portable technology for personal empowerment will become a major marketplace driven by America’s seniors who desire to be connected, empowered, and living independently and fully. This demand will create new opportunities for senior service providers to use high-tech to serve people with challenges, such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
* Multi-generational “neighborhood villages” will increasingly take shape as people desire to live fully at every age in their own homes and communities. Examples of such villages are Beacon Hill Village in Boston and Mill City Commons in Minneapolis.
* The financing of long-term care will significantly change with more people paying a larger portion of their services. The Government simply can’t afford to be the largest payer for such services.

About Ecumen:
Ecumen (www.ecumen.org) based in Shoreview, Minn., is one of the largest non-profit senior housing, services and development companies in the United States. Ecumen’s mission is to create homes for older adults wherever they choose to live. Ecumen is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and has 4,000 team members. Ecumen writes about news and ideas that are shaping the future of aging services at its Changing Aging blog: http://www.ecumen.org/changing-aging/.

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