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DAILY PRESS, NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, S1IMIAV MORMIVG. MARCH 5, 1972 E7 Adult Communities: New Way Of Life For Older People nor being close to children is also indicated that older ities, but this was not as lm- other facilities, including pub-important to these people. people wanted to live near portant as "easy access to lie transportation." The study, Dr. Hamovitch medical and hospital facil- shopping, restaurants and Since many adult commu- "The strong preference of re-spondenta in these samples was not to have young children in the neighborhood," Dr. Hamovitch said.

"The existence of safety features such as proper street lighting, was considered to be extremely important to all samples," he added. Safety, serenity, security and lots to do, little that must be done that is life in a retirement community. nities have neighbors living quite close to each other, it is interesting to note what Dr. Hamovitch says about privacy: "Most respondents indicated that they did not want privacy from neighbors outside the dwelling. In otherwords, when they go outside they want to be able to meet their Among their neighbors, they did not want young children.

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Visit Lowe's today and enter -the Super Shopper Contest. You may win trip to Lopdon It's an adventure you'll never forget!" By JOAN HANAUER United Press International "Grow old along with me! "The best is yet to be, "The last of life, for which the first was made." The words were written by Browning more than a century ago but the spirit is alive in "adult" or "retirement" villages that have blossomed increasingly in recent years from coast to coast. Tens of thousands of older couples, whose children have grown and left home, have been flocking to these communities. Many but not all seek perpetual summer, in warm climates with people much like' themselves, where a wide range of leisure facilities ranging from golf to woodworking are available within the community. Others prefer "villages" closer to home, where they can be "near the younger people, of the family." Some "adult" communities offer homes, others con-dominium apartments.

Many "include outdoor maintenance in the buying price. Some goffer on-jthepremises medical facilities, shopping areas and readily available wheelchairs. Some are run by church groups, other non-profit orga-niations or are erected as public housing, but many are private developments for the middle class. They all have one thing in common a minimum age. "The minimum varies and usu-ally applies to only one mem-.

ber of a couple. All forbid children as residents, although most allow them as overnight or weekend visitors. Whether these communities provide an ideal living arrange for the older couple or tend to- become -'old-age ghettos" as some critics have charged de- pends on whom you ask. There are those among the :U.S., Russians rAgree On Chess iMatch Locations r. MOSCOW (AP) The Rus-sian Chess Federation I In- Idicated Saturday 1 itr would agree to two sites for Hhe wo 1 championship chess match between Bobby Fischer of the United States and the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky.

The indication came in a letter which the Russian feel-aeration handed to Dr. Max Euwe, president of the Inter-'national Chess Federation. Euwe came to Moscow to try to break an impasse over the location for the champion-ship match. The Soviet news agency iTass reported that the Soviet federation said in the letter it is "ready, in principle, to dis-Icuss conducting the first half of the match in Belgrade and 'the second half in Reykja-, Belgrade is in Yugoslavia and Reykjavik is in Iceland. Russians had said the defending champion, had objected to playing all the games in a European city with a hot climate in summer.

'In their letter the Russians said the games should begin in Belgrade no later than July i. Spassky had picked Reykja-' vik as his first choice. Fischer had selected Belgrade because it had made the top money offer of $152,000 to host the match. The championship match will be 24 games. SUBSTITUTE JUDGE Tshannon T.

Mason a Newport News attorney, will assume duties as substitute judge in courts not of record this "week. Mason, an Old Dominion University and Marshall-xWythe School of Law graduate, was appointed by 'city council. He has been an at-'torney since 1962 and is mar-Tied to the former Miss Mary Lou Fanshaw of Norfolk. The ''Masons have three sons and a daughter. terviewed.

He turned out to be Frank Hemmerle, 76, a retired accountant. "I'm just on may way to play pool," he said. "We have everything here. An 18-hole golf course, a swimming pool, shuffleboard, medical center. There's even a deli around the corner.

"I've lived here since September, when I sold my home on Long Island (N.Y.). It was getting insecure there. This place is absolutely secure. If you don't belong you can't get in here." Hemmerle explained he lives with his daughter who is in her 30s his wife died just before he moved in. smiling he said: "It's out of this world here.

The people are the most wonderful people in the world. When I first came, I would walk down the street and strangers would wave and call out, 'Hi, how are He reaffirmed his content at Rossmore, then added, "It's the people who are most important." Two women having midaft-ernoon coffee at a table in die delicatessen Hemmerle mentioned were happy to tell a stranger about their experiences at Rossmore, although both were reluctant to be identified by name. One was a white haired, grandmotherly-looking woman of "72-plus," who called her 63year-old companion "my kid pal." Both women have been living in Rossmore for five years, and the older woman said: "The people here are very friendly. If anyone is ill, you never saw such kincjness as shown by the neighbors. Everyone looks after each other and there's a marvelous clinic they're at your house in minutes after you call." The second woman said: "It's a lot more peaceful here than any place." The first woman agreed, saying she is "not a scaredy-cat, but home is so peaceful and safe and after all, we're all getting older." The younger woman said she rarely visits New York City any more, although It Is only about an hour-and-a-half away, while the older woma said she goes every week or so and praised the bus service to New York 'that the community Both women'Sjhusbands art retired but are too busy in community activities to be underfoot all day, as is some-; times a wife's complaint when her husband retires.

Both spoke of changes that had come over the cities in recent years, of the danger of crime and violence. "Here's It's so safe, I feel so at ease," the older woman said. "Yes, that's important at this age," said the other. The satisfactions expressed by random sampling at one retirement village are representative, of the findings of a study of 1,800 older people in Southern California; people living in "segregated" housing for the elderly," from re-, tirement villages to public housing, and those living in ordinary communities, including a group that had moved out of an adult village. Dr.

Maurice B. dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California, told UPI some of" the findings of his study: "A most outstanding finding was the relative lack of importance attached to living near children and other close relatives. Most of the literature prior to this study indicated that older people have a great need to be near their children and other close relatives and those who are not were reported to be miserable. This was considered to be a universal need. "In this study, while more than half of the samples attach some importance to living near their children this was far less than in relation to most other items.

"In no instance did more than one-third of any subr-sample say they thought it important to live near other close relatives. Nor did they think it important to have extra rooms to accommodate visiting children or other relatives." There were exceptions to the points about extra rooms, and they were voiced by-and-large by those who had made arrangements to have more space. This goes along with Dr. Hamovitch's caution that the people and place involved In Interviews colors the results. Most of those sampled had sufficient means for a "choice of living arrangements.

If such people choose to live with their own age group, sometimes far from their children then of course neither being in a mixed age group elderly to whom such communities are appalling; others find life within them a great happiness. "These retirement villages are just an effort to throw us into a corner and forget us. They smell of death. Generally speaking they are a poor substitute for living in a regular community with people of all ages," said Max Friedson two years ago, at 71 president of the Dade County, Congress of Senior Citizens. Despite the Floridian's disdain, for some elderly people such living is a matter of economic necessity.

Samuel Sosnowick, executive director of the Rockland County, N.Y., Council for Senior Citizens, told UPI about the various housing developments being planned, built or battled for in the towns within Rockland, then said: "These are hundreds of housing units we are talking about, when thousands are needed." Sosnowick said such housing financed and built specifically for the elderly, with no other age groups included was vital, explaining: "We need housing for the senior citizens because so many cannot afford the rentals they have to pay on their low incomes, or if they are homeowners they cannot afford increasing taxes. They have to get out of where they are. Where do they go? That's the question." But it is not economics that dictates to the tens of thousands of middle class couples who sell their often of long-standing, to move to adult or retirement communities that are priced above the low-to-moderate range. i The first of these to receive widespread publicity was Del Webb's Sun City, near Phoenix, Ariz. It opened in January, 1960, and 272 homes were sold during the opening weekend.

By the end of the year 1,301 homes had been sold and Sun City had a population of 2,200. Homes then cost a base price of $8,500 to $11,300. Today Sun City has a population of over 20,000, the majority of whom are retired. One member of each couple must be over 50 years of age and there must be no resident teen-age or younger children. The community offers 5 four of living your, own home or one of three types of apartment.5 Base prices'' on these range from $20,490 for one model of garden apartment to $50,590 for a.

top-priced home. Golf course and lake locations cost considerably more. Sun City offers its residents a wide variety of ways to occupy their leisure time, from swimming pools, golf and shuffleboard to therapeuitc baths and name entertainment at $2 a ticket. The community has nine churches and its residents have organized more than 130 clubs and organizations, including a 65-mem-ber symphony orchestra. All religions and geographic-areas of the country are represented among residents, and there are a few Negro families in Sun City although the vast majority of the population is white.

While much of the retirement village building has been in hospitable climates such as Florida, Arizona and California, similar communities have sprung up all over. One such is Rossmore, in i d-New Jersey's Monroe Township. Rossmore is an all-apartment community that, sets the age minimum at 48. What if one member of a couple is 48, but the other younger? "Well, it's more the spirit of the thing," a Rossmore official said. "No one wants to be a stickler about these things, but there might be trouble about a 48-year-old man with a dazzling blonde 20-year-old.

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