Wausau discusses senior housing solutions as elderly population grows

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - The Wausau Common Council discussed the city’s growing elderly population and housing challenges during a meeting Tuesday night, reviewing a 2025 report on senior living from the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.

The city is facing a shortage of housing with accommodations for seniors, according to the report presented to the council.

“If they were to need a wheelchair or walker to make the doors wider. To be able to have things more easily accessible to them, to reach or to be able to access within their apartment,” said Director Mike Rhea with the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Central Wisconsin...   ...more