Anglicare Sydney’s Village Membership model may not yet be industry-wide, but with near-universal adoption at Woolooware Shores and Castle Hill, it’s shaping up as a blueprint for what retirement living in Australia could look like by 2030.

At the 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT, Ansell Strategic’s Cam Ansell predicted that assisted living delivered under the Retirement Village Act would soon dominate Australia’s aged care future. Now, Anglicare Sydney’s For Life model is bringing that vision to life – not just with words, but with a resident-endorsed model that’s proving scalable, sustainable and person-centred.

Following a successful debut at Woolooware Shores, where 100% of residents adopted the model, Anglicare invited residents at its Castle Hill campus to consider the same shift.

The response? Resounding support: across five villages, just 12 resid