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At Lasell, just a few doors down from Kaplan, Rosalind Meshekow, 84, diligently reviews her Spanish vocabulary. "I don't learn as fast as I used to," she says, "but since meals and housekeeping are taken care of for us here, I have more time to study." Flash cards in...
Retirees living and learning at Lasell Village in Newton, Mass. he and his wife Harriet, 84, moved in shortly after the $40 million retirement community opened in may 2000 on the campus of Lasell College. After living in an 11-room mansion in nearby Brookline for 53 years, the couple...
Just a few hundred yards from the tiny dorm rooms where his younger classmates reside, Kaplan reaches up to a handmade bookshelf and dusts off his 1940 Yale thesis on F.D.R. up until now the retired furniture maker has avoided Lasell writing courses. Kaplan skims his old thesis to remind...
Across the country, more than 50 Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) like this one at Lasell have opened their doors since the mid-1980s. The Kaplans are among thousands of seniors retiring to these college-affiliated communities. For many older Americans the desire to continue learning and growing intellectually still...
In 2003 more than 7,000 new apartments and cottages were built in CCRCs across the country. Lasell Village has a waiting list of more than 100 people. And with the senior population expected to double over the next 30 years, experts like Schless project exponential growth in the number...