Go around where she is NOW and get retirement home information. She does not need to be living in the same city as you.

Also, I am pissy as hell because one of my friends went and adopted a kitten at a shelter, despite telling me a bunch of times that she could not possibly take one of the EIGHT kittens we have rescued this summer because of her allergies. She said she could only have a purebred of a certain hypo-allergic type. Then she goes and adopts just a regular domestic short hair kitten from a shelter. It is not even like we didn't have a variety of kittens available. Four males and four males, and all colors from orange tabby to gray tabby to solid gray and white, tortoise shell to calico. WTF?