Gawker
If you thought the opportunities for further Sex and the City expansion was all played out, today's entry on the NYT blog New Old Age, "Single, Childless and ‘Downright Terrified,’" will prove otherwise. Jane Gross examines the single, childless women (and men) who will face old age alone. Even ad-hoc arrangements among friends to care for each other have no legal status. This sounds difficult and depressing. We need Carrie Bradshaw and her pals to help us through it! (After all, we all know that she and Samantha ain't having kids.)
Writes Gross,
"Another friend, Ann, shares my fantasy of setting up joint housekeeping, assuming she outlives her husband. Our thinking goes something like this: If one of us can see and the other hear, if one of us is mobile and the other cognitively intact, we’ll muddle through as long as we can and then pool our insurance premiums to hire home care. We’d prefer to use the benefit for a masseuse and a manicurist but know it would be a hard sell to persuade MetLife that those were the kinds of “activities of daily living” our policies cover.
I’ve written before about pairs or small groups of unrelated women who are already doing this, some even constructing houses designed for their old age."
This sounds like the perfect idea for the fourth movie, actually. Carrie, help!
Another idea: OMG, maybe a Sex and the City version of the Golden Girls. It would only be half as funny, but the product-placement opportunities are endless.
