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University-based retirement communities on the rise by Marilynn Larkin, MA

In the United States, university-based retirement communities (UBRCs) already exist at more than 60 campuses nationwide, and their number is predicted to increase significantly over the next two decades. “We have about 4,000 institutions of higher learning,” says Andrew Carle, MHSA, assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. “It would not be unreasonable to think that within 20 years, one out of 10 will be associated with a retirement community.”

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