March 30 sees over 50 leading speakers at the Retirement Communities World Conference in Sydney, including Paul Klaassen who founded and still runs Sunrise Seniors Living, operating over 440 villages in the US, Canada, Germany and UK. Given the housing market in each of those countries, he will have an unrivalled insight into the challenges of new sales. See http://www.terrapinn.com/2009/rcw_au/programme.stm for the full program.
Community Living
SATURDAY exclusive: “I hate begging”: Life on the home care waitlist
Laurie Sucic is 91, a retirement village resident, and the full-time carer for her 92-year-old husband. Both have been assessed as needing high-level home care – but like tens of thousands of older Australians, they have been told they will have...