Why can't someone work out a deal with a hotel for say $50/night for room and board for a year plus reasonable access to the hotel doctor?
This way if you don't want to get seasick and don't mind walking the same stretch of beach you could have a nicer place to live than an assisted living facility?
The government has a heavy hand in assisted living units even though they are private pay. Hotels may not want to get involved in inspections, surveys, mandates.... A cruise line in international waters might be able to get around it.
Once the government got involved, The price of keeping the eldery in either a motel or cruise ship will rapidly increase.
If this can be done on a cruise ship, why can't it be done in a hotel?
Why can't someone work out a deal with a hotel for say $50/night for room and board for a year plus reasonable access to the hotel doctor?
This way if you don't want to get seasick and don't mind walking the same stretch of beach you could have a nicer place to live than an assisted living facility?
This was common practice in the past. General MacArthur and his widow spent their final years at the Waldorf Astoria in NY. All of the south beach hotels were essentailly converted into senior housing and then recoverted into a playground in the 1980s. Virtually any older urban hotels has its share of permanent residents.
"Why can't someone work out a deal with a hotel for say $50/night for room and board for a year plus reasonable access to the hotel doctor?"
I ran these calculations about five years ago in relation to a patient healing in a hospital compared to putting them up in the Waldorf Astoria. Nurses working per diem would come in and issue medication and a doctor would make a hotel call.
It was cheaper by one half to put someone up at the Waldorf. This of course providing the patient didn't order more than one bottle of Dom Perignon per day.