Last year, Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging recruited communities to participate in the first national longitudinal study to evaluate the impact of living in a Life Plan Community on residents’ health and well-being.
The study, dubbed the Age Well Study, is being conducted by our researchers with support from Northwestern University, and measures residents’ self-reported health and wellness metrics through a survey taken annually for five years. We compare their survey results to a demographically similar sample drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) conducted by the University of Michigan.