In the leafy suburbs of Melbourne, on an ordinary street, sits an ordinary house. There is no signage or nurses’ station. But inside, 10 older Australians sit down together for a home-cooked lunch, prepared by a live-in housekeeper who also checks in on their wellbeing. This is Abbeyfield. It’s not a retirement village or aged care. Instead, it’s a 70-year-old international movement â...
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A family home, not an institution: the Abbeyfield answer for low-income seniors

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