Buying high-quality dividend stocks is a great way to collect passive dividend income. The best ones increase their dividends each year, and they can help you more than offset the impact of inflation over the long run.
The following three real estate investment trusts (REITs) have all delivered 30 or more years of consecutive annual dividend growth and should be able to continue increasing their higher-yielding payouts in the decades ahead, making them great stocks to buy for dividend income that could steadily rise throughout your lifetime.
This post originally appeared at The Motley Fool.