Community not for profit aged care provider, Abbeyfield Australia is in the planning stages of a 25-bedroom independent retiree unit and aged care complex in Timboon. Timboon Abbeyfield action group chairman, Peter Pope said he hoped the complex could be completed by 2013. Abbeyfield Australia is a national not-for-profit community housing provider representing 26 independent Abbeyfield Societies across Australia.
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The gnarly problem: the lack of new ageing accommodation infrastructure over 20 years has hit the Baby Boomer demand bubble. Bad outcomes for old people are accelerating. Planning approval hurdles are cited as the root cause. Delay and bureaucratic...