I get all that mail about retirement villages too. No way! Society consists of people of all ages, and I prefer to live among people of all ages. There is a family next door with 5 girls, aged 5 to 22, and a retired couple the other side. This is an old suburb, so a lot of people here are knocking on a bit, but not all, which is important to me.
I visit my friend, same age as me, 68, at a retirement village and although it is beautifully landscaped, with lots of facilities, I always feel claustrophobic there. Her 2 bedroom flat is quite large - I'm not sure why i feel that way. She is happy there, which is all that matters, though she does get out of the village as often as possible.
An acquaintance from U3A had to move into a one bedroom flat in another retirement village. His wife had left him and demanded her share of the marital home, but it had suffered from the 2011 floods, having been completely under water, so its value had plummeted. Then he had a mild stroke. People around him advised him to buy the unit, but he is miserable. He says it is like living in a small cupboard. Most of these horrors happened in 2012 - his own annus horribilis.