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So you’ve made the decision to focus your business on helping seniors. Your heart is in it, you have the passion, but where do you start?

When you think of the term “senior,” what comes to mind? Do you think of a specific age group? Do you have an image in your mind of what a “senior” would look like? Do you ever think about there being more than one type of “senior?”