4. Oklahoma
If you want to retire to a different state and are hopeful that your community will push you to live an active and healthy lifestyle, you should probably avoid Oklahoma. In the past 6 years alone obesity has increased by 21% among those who are 65 or older. Physical inactivity is a real problem in the Sooner State.
Here, 36% of adults aren’t active in the least. Furthermore, 19% of adults over the age of 65 are also depressed, with this number having gone up by 9% in the past six years.
Nursing homes are not known for great staff or facilities here. Oklahoma ranks 48th in the nation since 22.9% of nursing homes are considered ‘low care’.
The only silver lining is the fact that smoking has decreased by 22% in recent years. Nowadays only 10% of seniors smoke.
We’d also say good Bayou to the next state…..
Some of the measures offered here are inconsequential. How many people smoke is no measure of whether you will smoke. The same is true of drinking alcohol or over-eating. What is critical is the quality of nursing homes or assisted living homes, quality and availability of medical facilities, affordability of being able to live there, crime rates (which are not addressed), availability of public transportation, senior recreational opportunities, etc. Many of these are simply not in this article. If they were, I think the scoring by state would be vastly different.
Very well said….Thanks
All 5 of those states are RED states. People who are easily influenced by lies and a party that is in a self-destruct mode!!