South Florida is to get its first gay retirement home, Secret Garden in Wilton Manors.
Tom Duffy, a retired catering business owner, has converted an assisted living facility into the Secret Garden ? the first of its kind in South Florida.
?I want it to be like a family, more like a commune, I guess,? said Mr?Duffy, 61, who lives on the property and has been interviewing prospective residents in the past two weeks.
The 4,000-square-foot Secret Garden will provide shared and private rooms, meals and transportation for shopping outings and doctor appointments. Mr?Duffy plans to have employ a full-time assistant, and other part-timers to do housekeeping, cook and plan activities.
Rents?will range from $2,500 to $3,500 (?2,300)?a month. Mr?Duffy says gay men would probably find traditional senior living ?too impersonal.? He said: ?I?m confident people will come here.?
Chris MacLellan, co-ordinator of senior services for SunServe, an LGBT social service agency in the area of Wilton Manors, said: ?Most of them don?t have family they can rely on, so they must turn to their friends and neighbors.?
?Tom is taking a risk. But I think once he gets some referrals, it will just start to roll.?
Demographers have predicted that there will be 3 million gay Americans older than age 65 by?2030.
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Source: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/03/25/us-south-florida-to-get-first-gay-retirement-home/
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