LDK Seniors’ Living is taking care into new territory – literally inviting the neighbourhood in. At a media event marking Stage 2 at Amberfield in Yarralumla, 3.5km south-west of Canberra’s CBD, General Manager Sales and Marketing Craig Flett drew applause as he described how LDK’s model is blurring the line between village and community.
“We’ve now got 40-odd seniors clubs based at Greenway Views… about 1,500 people a week use our community areas who don’t live there,” he said.
“It makes the village vibrant and we don’t charge the clubs. They use our meeting rooms, auditoriums and hospitality services – the only condition is they open membership to our residents. Interestingly, it’s roughly 50/50: half members from the community and half living at LDK. We aim to do something very similar here at Amberfield.”
Stage 2 is a $100 million build designed by Rothelowman, delivering 127 apartments (all but one of the one-bedrooms sold), including two specialist dementia homes and care hub apartments – the next milestone in LDK’s $500 million, five-stage precinct, with Stage 3 sales already underway.
Craig also highlighted LDK’s One Move promise – keeping couples together as care needs rise.
“Our goal is to keep couples together for as long as possible. If a couple needs to separate because the more independent partner develops carer’s fatigue, the second apartment in our care hub is complimentary. We don’t charge for it,” he said. “That can mean savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
At LDK’s villages, residents know their costs upfront: a fixed weekly fee, a one-off membership fee, and the purchase price returned on departure – a pricing structure the operator says provides certainty for life.
