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GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): It’s not uncommon for young adults to live with roommates in order to offset the high cost of housing. But with one out of every three baby boomers now single and approaching retirement, some of them are returning to the communal living of their youth to ease the burdens of their golden years.
Special correspondent Spencer Michels reports for our Taking Care series.
WOMAN: I thought maybe we would use the plastic ones for them.
SPENCER MICHELS (NewsHour): Karen Bush and Louise Machinist like to plan together, everything from dinner parties to the breakdown of chores at their new condo in Sarasota, Florida, to projects at the shown they share with Jean McQuillin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
WOMAN: I will be hope April 4. And I will probably be there most of that upcoming week, so if there are things that I need to do…
SPENCER MICHELS: The longtime friends now in their 60s have been coordinating their lives like this for the past 10 years. Before that, like a growing number of female baby boomers, all three were divorced, living alone and unsatisfied with the size of their savings accounts as they neared retirement.
WOMAN: Let’s tell the real story. She cooks. I do the dishes.
SPENCER MICHELS: Combining resources, they decided, would make life cheaper, easier, and more fun. Their relationship was easy to describe from the start.
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