A SPECIAL REPORT: SENIORS
GRAYING & GROWING: Retirement communities only hint at the county’s total 60-and-older population--306,417, according to the 1990 census. That’s up 33% from 1980 (B1), while L.A. County’s rose only 11.5% and San Francisco’s virtually not at all (0.05%). . . . Peggy Weatherspoon of the local Area Agency on Aging thinks big-city rents and fear of urban crime account for the migration. . . . Weatherspoon predicts the senior population will double by the year 2010.
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