<prompt> Human: I recently started researching my retirement age, and found a great site: Then I proceeded to read some other articles, because a lot of people I know do not save. For example my Mom and a few other family members have absolutely no retirement savings at all! Then found this article, below from Bloomberg and around 50 of people fall into this category..startlingThen, I went a bit further, because site 1 budgets are sexy doesnt include an SS contribution. I went to the SS site to perfom a simple calculation I used 1978 birth year 36 years old, with a 50k a year salary and due to retire in 2035 and I get a whopping total SS of 1200 a month. I know there is someone here, who will try to correct my math, or the spreadsheets above...but my real question is what really happens to these people? If 50 of the population doesnt have a 401k, we can maybe assume they also dont own a home. I mean, we cant put people at age 62 into nursing homes right? Where do they all go? And, who will support them? Assistant: My grandparents didnt save for retirement. They paid their house off, and lived off SS and Medicare and VA benefits, but they lived very, very frugally. Were talking pimento cheese sandwiches most nights kind of frugal.Human: I just started liking pimento cheese sandwiches. my grandmother passed recently, and i was in charge of the food after the funeral. i had a lot of pimento cheese sandwiches for the old folks. they love them. now when i eat them, i think of my grandma. traveling is certainly out of the question i suppose...just love your house because those are the four walls you will be in until you die...Assistant: or until you cant take care of yourself, they sell off your house to pay for a nursing home...Human: yeah, those would not be the glory years. i actually spent a year volunteering in nursing homes last year. those places smell. however, i was surprised at how many activities there were every day: barbeques, movie night, bingo, putting together puzzles, haircutsalon on site once a month, weekly trips to the dollar store in a van etc. it made me realize they are all not that bad...and they do try to get the people out of their rooms. i hope i end up in a nice place like that.  <response>: My grandma-in-law recently turned 90 and moved to a retirement community. She was very worried about it at first, but she fuckin loves it there now.But a lot of it depends on wherehow you land. 