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I've heard tale that people have opted to be permanent cruise ship residents over living in assisted living facilities. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl

• Retric 7y ago
  Permanent is rather misleading in that context. These these people don’t have major mental or physical impairments yet. Their old enough to retire, but heathy enough to enjoy it.
  • cjbprime 7y ago
    That's not obvious to me. You can imagine people might take a cruise over a walking tour of Tuscany because the cruise is much more accommodating of physical disability, you can get around with a wheelchair, there's lots of staff to help, etc.
    • bluGill 7y ago
      You can, but the cruise will not let you on once you reach a certain level of disability. Wheelchair is no problem, but if you can't get yourself out of bed into the wheelchair they will kick you off. Similar for other disabilities, minor cases are fine, but if you can't mostly take care of yourself you are off. A cruise is one of the cheaper assisted living arrangements if you qualify, (but governments will not subsidize your cruise while if you need assisted living they will). Part of it is discounts for inside cabins, part of it is they know you are there and will give various jobs when they need help which helps pay for your cruise.
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