The Top 50 U.S.
Ranked by Senior Living Needs: Health, Economics, Social, Crime and More
By Sharon O'Brien, About.com Guide
Bankers Life & Casualty Company, which specializes in insurance for seniors, gathered a panel of experts on gerontology and senior issues to determine which U.S.
The panel rated the top 50 U.S.
How Was the Best Cities for Seniors Survey Conducted?
Bankers says the survey, released in 2005, was designed to identify the top 50 metro areas in theU.S.
Bankers says the survey, released in 2005, was designed to identify the top 50 metro areas in the
A panel of experts on gerontology and senior issues was asked to identify the qualities that create optimal senior living, and the survey was conducted by Sperling's Best Places.
What Makes a City Good for Senior Living?
Here are the criteria that the panel chose, statistically weighted toward seniors and their needs:
Here are the criteria that the panel chose, statistically weighted toward seniors and their needs:
· Health includes criteria such as physician-to-senior ratio, gerontologist-to-senior ratio, hospitals per capita, and the availability of adult day care, assisted living facilities, continuing care (CCRC) facilities, independent living facilities, nursing homes, and senior meals.
· Disease covers life expectancy, age 85 expectancy, and rates of depression, heart disease, and cancer.
· Economics includes consumer prices, sales taxes, unemployment rate, and recent job growth.
· Social identifies the percentage of seniors in the community, and availability of entertainment opportunities, the arts, museums, education, recreation, colleges, and libraries.
· Environment assesses the number of sunny days, measurements of clean air and clean water, risk of natural disasters, and the presence of ocean coastline, rivers and lakes, and national parks.
· Spiritual looks at the percentage of the population belonging to organized religions, and the number of religious congregations in the community.
· Transportation rates the availability of public transportation and special access transportation, along with commuting times.
· Housing includes cost of living, median home price, property taxes and monthly apartment rent.
· Crime ranks incidents of violent crime and property crime.
Bankers Life & Casualty Company’s Best Cities for Seniors 2005
1. Portland , OR
2. Seattle , WA
3. San Francisco , CA
4. Pittsburgh , PA
5. Milwaukee , WI
6. Philadelphia , PA
7. New York , NY
8. Boston , MA
9. Cincinnati , OH
10. Chicago , IL
11. Cleveland , OH
12. Salt Lake City , UT
13. Detroit , MI
14. New Orleans , LA
15. Indianapolis , IN
16. Kansas City , KS
17. Los Angeles , CA
18. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
19. Denver , CO
20. Greensboro-Winston , NC
21. St. Louis , MO
22. Nashville , TN
23. Providence , RI
24. Houston , TX
25. Washington , DC
26. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill , NC
27. Austin , TX
28. Columbus , OH
29. San Antonio , TX
30. Orlando , FL
31. Tampa-St. Petersburg -Clearwater
32. Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA
33. Newark , NJ
34. San Diego , CA
35. Phoenix , AZ
36. Atlanta , GA
37. San Jose , CA
38. Fort Worth-Arlington , TX
39. Baltimore , MD
40. Charlotte , NC
41. Las Vegas , NV
42. Fort Lauderdale , FL
43. Oakland , CA
44. Dallas , TX
45. Sacramento , CA
46. Riverside-San Bernardino, CA
47. Orange County , CA
48. Nassau-Suffolk , NY
49. Miami , FL
50. Passaic , NJ
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