A bold regulatory and design experiment at Grandton Applecross has quietly rewritten the rulebook – showing how aged care can legally operate within a retirement living setting for the first time in Australia.

It’s the kind of story that will one day be written into the sector’s history books – the moment the first residential aged care beds were approved inside a retirement living community.

That community is Grandton Applecross (pictured top), in Perth’s leafy riverside suburb 7km from the CBD, an 80-apartment, strata-titled community built to 9C residential aged care standards.

Across the building, 26 apartments have now been legally approved and