A growing number of older Americans are residing in senior-living communities. Demand is far higher than supply, and costs are generally high. But there are many advantages to such accommodation, even if making such a move requires some adjustment.

If you haven't heard of pickleball, you must be living in a mountaintop monastery somewhere in the Himalayas. Yet even there, at 10,000 feet in Bhutan, monks have been playing pickleball since 2023.

What's going on? Why is my hair falling out? Age, they'll tell me — that's the answer to everything I question, whether it's physical or mental. Age is always the answer.

Move over, mah-jongg. See ya later, Scrabble. There's a whole world of board games out there that hold potential interest for seniors who may be looking for something social, something different, and maybe even something new and challenging. Here are a few fun suggestions from an elder millennial for the older adults in the room.