From Forbes — 

Relatively few childless adults reside in assisted living and continuous care communities today. Why? There were no adult children to convince them to make the move. This article is a continuation of the August 6 and August 13 blogs about the key planning targets child-free Baby Boomers need to consider. The focus in this one is relocation and residential decision making.

The following is a true story from my book; the names have been changed:

For five years, Evelyn had tried to convince her widowed mother, Jean, then eighty-seven, to move out of her multi-story house …