At This Affordable Senior Living Community, Volunteering Will Be Required
By Sally Abrahms, Next Avenue Linda Helfet and Bill Hilliker are fans of the Opus Newton senior living concept Linda Helfet, 78, and her husband Bill Hilliker, 86, always thought they would grow old in their beloved Watertown, Mass., condo just outside Boston. But with one son living in Oregon and the other in Georgia, they've begun to worry. "What's going to happen when either Bill or I are gone?" says Helfet. "One of us will be all alone." Thinking about the high cost of health care as they age has been equally unsettling for the couple. Helfet and Hilliker toured a luxury long-term care community where friends live. The hefty buy-in cost and monthly fees were steep. And, asks Helfet, "Who needs five restaurants and someone to wait on me?" The Plan for Opus Newton Then she heard about Opus Newton, a new type of senior living development for people 62+ catering to the underserved middle-income market around Boston. The not-for-profit community wil...