“While the average nursing home costs $188 per day, Robison wrote that reservations at the hotel chain cost $59.23 per night with both a long-term stay and senior discount. Factor in free breakfast and happy hour and Robison calculated that would leave $128.77 a day for food and entertainment.” USA Today: This man won’t go into a nursing home. He’ll spend his ‘golden age’ at the Holiday Inn. “Hotel staff will fix any issues from light bulbs to mattresses, Robison said, and apologize for the inconvenience. A night security guard will keep watch and a maid will check in daily. And, Robison said, the staff will ‘call an ambulance . . . Or the undertaker’ if anything goes wrong.”

+ The NYT takes you the German town Where Kale Is King (at Least, When It’s Stewed in Schmaltz and Bacon). Excellent. I’ll take an order of that, hold the kale…

+ CityLab: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Public Transit Seat Covers of the World.