By 2025, Montana’s senior population (I’m 59 so that is about to include me) will grow by 82%. Currently our state is 14th in the nation with folks over 65; seventeen years from now we’ll have the 3rd highest. And bringing it closer to home, 26% of all Ravalli County residents will be 65+ by 2025.

For younger people, seventeen years seems like a lifetime. But to those of us who have been around awhile, those years will go by very quickly.

Now I don’t know all the answers…I don’t even know all the questions. But one thing I feel strong about is that a Montanan’s quality of life is a most precious natural resource - no matter how old you are.