Growing number of older Americans choose to live with roommates

Applications for senior roommates have tripled in New York over the past six years. Vinita Nair reports on how "Boomer Roomies" are helping one another.

[maryshaffer]

MSN had a wonderful articles about sharing costs and living well back in 2009.

[gborowme]

What a fabulous idea, loneliness is a killer. 
A friend of mine died and was found after a week. I was looking for her after three days because we talked every other day. After 4 days I called our workplace, sent a note to the charge nurse but after a week her daughter who lives out of state called neighbors and was found dead. 
This is a good idea, I am a nurse in California, I always called family when I receive a patient who lives alone. I always tell them the animals cannot call 911 when you fall.
What a refreshing story, do not brand this very important venture with an ugly name, it is older people helping and coming together after the kids are gone. Thanks, CBS, this is a very important topic to me, as a nurse. We need to care more for our parents. Nurse Abibatu

[happeeboy]

GOOD! maybe boomers can stop harassing me now about things I should afford and how I need to "try harder". Now that it affects them they might see that things really have changed.