Average age is 80 – the new world of retirement villages (and manufactured parks)
Why do I call retirement villages and manufactured home parks ‘supportive communities’? Because this is exactly what they are.
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Christopher Baynes
Chris Baynes is a columnist and publisher of Frank & Earnest. He is also the publisher of Villages.com.au, the leading national directory of retirement villages and aged care services in Australia.
Tony Abbott – a good man but glad he is gone
What a week. Tony Abbott, our fifth Prime Minister in five years, gone. The wish of the people has simply prevailed. Or my wish at least.
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The case for retirement villages – despite negative people
A few negative people can destroy a good thing for everyone else; retirement villages are no different.
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Consumer Directed Care – when you can access your money
By now you should have heard the expression ‘consumer directed care’, or CDC.
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Federal Ageing Minister says give the money to the home care customers
“Home care has been controlled by the operators but we are moving control to consumers.”
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7-Eleven slave labour bastardry not the Australian way
To my mind other countries accept this cruel, demeaning, greedy persecution of another human being but we Australians do not.
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Are retirement village homes a bargain? Perhaps they are…
The Property Council has just released a survey which says the average cost of a two bedroom retirement village home in Australia is $385,000 which sounds like a bargain to me.
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We have to talk about Tony
We need leadership which generates optimism about the future. Tony Abbott is incapable of this. I believe there is a fundamental flaw in his character.
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The case for retirement villages with serviced apartments
If you moved into an aged care facility five years ago you could expect to stay there, live there, for three years. That was the average length of time.
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Praise for Rupert Murdoch and ‘mattering’
I find it remarkable and remarkably good that they are both so centrally involved in their businesses and in creating future value, for themselves, their families and shareholders.
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