2 New England States Rank Highest For A Healthy Retirement
When you think of retirement, your first thoughts are typically where is the best place to go for good weather and low cost of living. What people need to think about above all is having a healthy retirement and where to go to make your odds of that happening greater?
Good news for New Englanders, we scored two of our states in the top ten for healthy retirement. Those states are Vermont scoring number 3 and New Hampshire scoring number 9 in the top 10.
Where to go for a healthy retirement
For US states, the score included social isolation risk, healthcare access, available senior living facilities per 100,000 people, and poverty levels among seniors. All these factors were equally weighted to rank locations based on senior well-being.
Wisconsin ranked first, with a well-being score of 8.62, thanks to its low poverty rate, abundant senior living facilities, and relatively low risk of social isolation.
Minnesota followed in second place with a score of 8.21, performing well across most factors, including a low poverty rate and reasonable access to senior living facilities.
Here’s the top ranked
Wisconsin – 8.62
Minnesota – 8.21
Vermont – 8.11
Washington – 8.06
Iowa -8.01
Idaho – 7.81
Maryland – 7.40
Oregon – 7.14
New Hampshire – 7.09
Kansas – 7.04
On the other end of the spectrum was Oklahoma, with the lowest well-being score of 0.87.
The average poverty rate was around 6.5 percent on average in the to 10 states.
After Oklahoma came to Mississippi, it ranked second-lowest in wellness at 0.97, had a 14.9 percent poverty rate, fewer than six retirement communities per capita, a social isolation risk of 100, and was second-last in the nation for access to healthcare.
Then came Alabama, with a wellness score of 1.5, a poverty rate of nearly 14 percent, 4.3 senior living facilities per capita, an isolation risk score of 83, and the 38th-worst healthcare access score.
Louisiana was fourth-worst at 1.79, followed by New Mexico at 1.84 and Arkansas at 2.04. West Virginia was tied with Arkansas.
Texas took spot eight with a score of 2.19, followed by Kentucky at 2.60 and New York with a score of 2.81.
The US’s life expectancy rate was lower than that of the top-performing countries including Switzerland, Iceland, and Norway.
