Sounds ace Tig. Having visited older relations in OAP homes where they are treated as children, there has to be a better way of living in old age.

Your idea sounds like a perpetual Folk Festival. Perhaps there could be a string of homes at Festival towns where old-codgers could go and enjoy the music and be looked after.

I read a story of an older lady who booked onto cruise ships and stayed on for several tours, before swapping onto another cruise. She said she was fed and looked after well, there was nightly entertainment, a doctor onboard and lots of people to talk to.