International

Various payment systems at top four UK retirement villages

Research from online care platform Lottie reveals the country’s most popular retirement villages and the difference in how residents Over 55 pay to live in them. Retirement living is not cheap in England with the average price to buy in of nearly...

Ian Horswill

11 Mar 2024

Not for Profit

Only in SATURDAY: Community Home Australia (CHA) weighs up Bali ‘village’ for Aussie expats

The ink is barely dry on the deposit for its first international resort in Bali, but the innovative dementia care and disability provider already sees further opportunities to expand into accommodation for the growing Australian expat community. As...

Lauren Broomham

13 Feb 2024

Retirement and Community Living

Time to raise your prices? Look at what is charged for assisted living in the US

A Queensland aged care and retirement living operator told me after a recent tour of the US that his only thought was that his prices were too low. More than 30,600 assisted living facilities are currently active in America, with an average...

Ian Horswill

30 Jan 2024

Community Living

Can this happen in Australia? UK’s best new building is a retirement village

John Morton Centre, a day centre for residents of Morden College, a retirement community in south-east London, England, has been named winner of the 2023 RIBA Stirling prize for the best new building in the country. “At a time when adult social care...

Ian Horswill

24 Oct 2023

Finance

Summerset Group’s third of seven Victorian villages approved as it’s clear why it wants to invest $1 billion into Australia

Earlier this month the SOURCE revealed the first villas would be built at its first village in Cranbourne North, 39km south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, by the end of the year. As the photograph shows, look at the numbers of seniors at the launch of...

Ian Horswill

28 Aug 2023

Community Living

Arabic-speaking co-located retirement and aged care home proposed by St Maurice Aged Care

A previously approved six-storey mixed residential development with senior housing in Blacktown, 34km west of Sydney’s CBD, has been resubmitted as a seven-storey co-located retirement living and aged care facility to be called St Maurice Village...

Ian Horswill

25 Jul 2023

Sector Moves & People

Regional NSW Council is spending $600K to sponsor 10 overseas staff for aged care home

Coolamon Shire Council is sponsoring 10 overseas staff from the Philippines, training them to be nurses and building homes for them to live in because it has been unable to recruit staff locally. Allawah Lodge, the aged care facility in Coolamon, is...

Team Editor

03 Jul 2023

Topic - Developments

UK’s peak retirement body wants the UK to jump on Australia’s successful land lease model

ARCO, the main body representing the UK’s integrated retirement community sector, wants the country to adopt the land lease model that is so successful in Australia. Leasehold Plus, which is developed by ARCO with legal support from partner...

Section Editor

22 May 2023

International

Wellness centre and rideshare program brings residents and members of the community together

One of New Zealand’s largest retirement villages operators, Arvida, plans to roll the program out across the country. Arvida has developed a successful initiative called Arvida Good Friends in Christchurch, which combines a number of services and...

Section Editor

15 May 2023

Topic - Housing News

World’s largest over 55s community – The Villages in Florida – to double in size

Disneyland for Seniors, as it is known, The Villages covers an area of approximately 83km/sq, and is now home to more than 130,000 people. It has more than 60,000 homes, and has plans for another 60,000 homes to be developed over the next 20 years...

Section Editor

01 May 2023

Topic - Developments

South Korean delegation attracted to Dougherty Apartments integrated model in Sydney

The eight-storey Dougherty Apartments, a joint venture between Willoughby City Council and the NSW Department of Housing, in Chatswood, on Sydney’s Lower North Shore, offers an integrated model of care for people aged 55 and over. It offers 44...

Section Editor

27 Mar 2023

DCM Research

Does New Zealand point to the end of aged care beds in villages?

You can watch his 7 minute discussion HERE

Section Editor

20 Mar 2023

Topic - Aged Care

Feros Care reveals plans to redevelop ageing Byron Bay aged care home

The Not For Profit has announced that Feros Village Byron Bay will be redeveloped into a state-of-the-art intergenerational community based on international models of care. Feros Village Byron Bay opened in 1990 as a low-care hostel. This week...

Section Editor

08 Mar 2023