Seniors, College Kids Share Residence

"...mingling these young people — a burst of noise and colour, a nose clip, gelled spiked hair, a low-slung silver-coined waistband jangling atop black hiphuggers — among the stooped gray-haired seniors, many of whom are steering walkers as they enter the common dining room, represents more than a financial Band-Aid.This integrated living arrangement — age ranging from 17 to 108, two-thirds of them seniors, half of the seniors over 85 — gives new meaning to the term "intergenerational," the buzzword for managing the approaching "age quake." In the years between now and 2050, 10 million Canadians will reach retirement age...."