22 July The Age SMH Freedom articles
22 July The Age SMH Freedom articles
Browsing: In the Headlines
Harbord Diggers retirement village: the new benchmark in ‘community’ – and price
Anyone interested in the retirement village sector (including Fairfax and Four Corners) should check out this video for Watermark Freshwater,…
Now WA is vowing to crack down on retirement village contracts
Rolling off the back of the Fairfax/Four Corners exposé on the village sector, the WA Consumer Protection Unit has launched…
Mackay hotel to be turned into huge 12 and eight-storey retirement village
Marina International Pty Ltd, the owners of the Clarion Hotel on Mackay’s Marina, have lodged a development application to convert…
Redevelopment 1: Not For Profit Life Care invests $250M in campus-style villages and aged care for Adelaide
The SA Not For Profit has lodged an application with the Development Assessment Commission (DAC) for three campus-style developments in…
Redevelopment 2: village residents give green light to SwanCare’s $60M village and aged care upgrade
Over 80% of residents at the WA Not For Profit’s Bentley Park village voted in favour of the refurbishment which…
Redevelopment 3: Italian Aged Care to overhaul its ageing village and aged care in Perth
The WA Not For Profit wants to build a three-storey 84-bed aged care facility adjacent to its existing Villa Terenzio…
Redevelopment not always easy
So that’s three providers all re-developing to cater for our ageing baby boomers. Redeveloping can have its problems however –…
Try before you buy: RetireAustralia offers potential residents a taste of village life
The NZ-owned operator has launched Care Experience, which gives potential customers the chance to stay in a serviced apartment and…
89% of aged care complaints resolved within 30 days: Aged Care Complaints Commissioner
The latest National Quarterly Bulletin released by the Commissioner reveals there were 892 residential care complaints across the country –…