Mick Jagger may have to join a retirement village to get his satisfaction, according to a resident survey commissioned by the Residents of Retirement Villages of Victoria (the RRVV).
1,876 current residents (members of the RRVV) completed a 38 question pen and paper survey conducted by the National Ageing Research Institute, rating various experiences 1 to 10, with 10 being top marks.
The report says “To assess residents’ quality of life, we asked how satisfied they were with their life as a whole. On average, the response was positive (mean = 7.9, SD – standard deviation = 1.8), where 1 = not satisfied and 10 = completely satisfied”.
You can get what you want
This means if you took all the people in the survey and you average everybody who gives a bad mark and everybody who gives the top mark, the average is still 7.9 out of 10 which is remarkable. Village residents are close to being completely satisfied with their quality of life.
And their emotional health was the same (mean = 7.9, SD=1.9).
Most would recommend retirement village living to their family, friends or colleagues (mean=7.2, SD=2.8).
And why do people join a village? “A concern for safety represented the most common reason for moving into retirement villages (67.4%), followed closely by the need to downsize (60.4%)”, says the report.
These results match our own research (McCrindle Baynes 2011, 2013) which identified future concerns for care and establishing security for the rest of your life as being the major incentive to join a retirement village – and a satisfied quality of life.
Close to 200,000 people now live in village communities across 2,200 locations – meaning there is one in nearly every suburban town across the country.
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