Retirement advice has been selling the same postcard for forty years. Sunshine. Low taxes. A golf course. A clubhouse with a water aerobics schedule.

Fine. Now answer a harder question.

It's Tuesday. You're 83. You need a prescription, a carton of milk, and to see one person who isn't on a screen.

Can you do it?

That's the whole test. Everything else is landscaping.

The best place to grow old isn't the place with the nicest retirement community. It's the place that still works the day you stop driving.

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