COVID Marshals in retirement villages – for your protection
Ever think what happens in a retirement village with COVID, compared to at home in…More
Author: Christopher Baynes
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.
Will the drop in the Consumer Price Index affect retirement village fees?
Armchair economists would have noticed the Consumer Price Index (CPI), basically a statistic that’s used…More
Selfless workers move into retirement villages to protect residents from COVID-19
Protecting residents from potentially at-risk staff has been one of the major challenges of the…More
43% of people feel vulnerable yet only 13% consider retirement communities
If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s the value of control in our…More
Retirement communities vital to the future of social care
Retirement communities can play an active role in how aged care is delivered and ultimately…More
Potential retirement village residents see things differently to people who’ve just moved in
Ask a new resident about retirement villages and odds are they’ll say something quite different…More
What are retirement villages doing to support residents in isolation? Here is one answer from Stockland
The vision every night on the TV news of the thousands of residents in the…More
Church and charities leading the innovation in retirement living design
Believe it or not, the photograph above is of a retirement village located in the…More
Before COVID 9% of older Australians were focused on downsizing, now it’s 47% and more
Life was never going to be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic. For months Australians…More
Retirement village residents now will officially have the ‘aged care rule’ in NSW
If you live in a retirement village the statistics show that you will live five…More