Dementia is often horrible and I shouldn't joke about it... but I read this headline and immediately thought it sounded like my kind of town. :-) More seriousl

Dementia is often horrible and I shouldn't joke about it... but I read this headline and immediately thought it sounded like my kind of town. :-) More seriously, this town is a beautiful, compassionate idea and I'm glad it's there. Here in the United States, the final years of a person's life are usually overwhelmingly expensive. Either paying many thousands of dollars per month in an assisted living facility, or paying almost nothing to a family member who sacrifices their own life for a time to provide care at home. I've seen great results in mixed-generational care, where childcare and elder care have close interaction at least a couple of days per week. Amazing improvement in the elders living in relatively modest assisted living homes, and possible to provide at scale, more commonplace... But a global pandemic shut that down hard.