Woman Lives On Cruise Ship Instead Of Nursing Home

Most of the time Norovirus the most common cause of illness on a cruise ship is only a minor annoyance.

Woman lives on cruise ship instead of nursing home. When you compare the monthly costs Princess Cruises adds up to about 4200 and the private room at the nursing home is nearly 8000. Her husband had passed away while the couple was on a world cruise. Bea Muller an 86-year-old retiree took up residence on Cunards Queen Elizabeth 2 on 5 January 2000.

Senior living at sea appears to be moving closer to reality. She replied Yes thats true I stated I dont understand and she replied without a pause Its cheaper than a nursing home So there will be no nursing home in my future. Thats what 86-year-old widow Lee Wachtstetter has been doing for the last seven years.

I have checked on reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of 135 per day. The average cost for a nursing home is 200 per day. That said the idea that living on a cruise ship is an alternative to nursing care is unrealistic at best and dangerous at worst.

Real Life People Living on Cruise Ships in Retirement Theres a woman who has been making headlines recently for living on a Princess cruise ship. Instead of moving into a retirement home in her golden years she decided to use her money to buy passage after passage on Princess cruises essentially living on the cruise ships and seeing the world as she aged. And in Washington DC the average rent for independent living in 2015 was 3462.

She replied Yes thats true. She calls the 1070-passenger cruise ship Crystal Serenity her home. There was Lee Wachtstetter who wrote a memoir about living on cruise ships for 12 years after her husband died.

Gratuities which will only be 10 per day. The average cost for a nursing home is 200 per day. Kulp notes that a reservation on Princess Cruises averages 135 per day while the average cost of a private room in a nursing home averages 229 per day.