The Takeaway: Wine Country Retirement Community Will Provide Continuing Care for Gay Seniors

Gray & Gay: Fountaingrove Lodge in Santa Rosa, Calif., is a retirement community being built mainly for gay and lesbian seniors-and it's being promoted as the first of its kind in the United States. While many "niche retirement communities" exist-including a growing number of LGBT communities-Fountaingrove will provide a combination of independent and assisted living facilities (including dementia care), all on a 10-acre site in the wine country of Sonoma County.

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More places like this are needed, SAGE (Services and Advocacy for G.L.B.T. Elders) tells the New York Times. The New York-based group put out a report last November on the discrimination gay seniors often face when buying or renting a home or trying to find a spot in mainstream retirement communities. And it's common for same-sex couples to be separated when they are admitted.

Monday Quick Hits: 

• "The whole night looked like an AARP pep rally," writes NYT critic Alessandra Stanley of last night's Oscars ceremony . Billy Crystal hosted for the ninth time, 82-year-old Christopher Plummer won best supporting actor for playing a gay father in "Beginners," and Meryl Streep won best actress for "The Iron Lady."

• Sibling rivalry hits the obit page: When Angelo "A.J." Anello of Florida placed an obituary for his mother Josie, earlier this month, he took the opportunity to insult his brother and sister in print.

• The sluggish U.S. economy may be squeezing black and Latino seniors harder than their white counterparts.

• Dementia behind bars: It's an underreported but fast-growing phenomenon, and one that many prisons are desperately unprepared to handle.

• Only half of New York judges are expected to retire by age 85, mirroring the federal courts across America, where age is valued like nowhere else. Older judges benefit from having nothing to prove said 90-year-old Judge Jack Weinstein, a World War II veteran appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the bench more than four decades ago.

• Conrado Marrero, who pitched five seasons with the Washington Senators in the 1950s before returning to Cuba, is finally receiving overdue compensation from the Major League Baseball Players Association. The 100-year-old Marrero is the oldest living former major leaguer.

• And Mitt Romney has outlined his plan to push back the eligibility ages for Medicare and Social Security.