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Retirement living gives the luxury of being able to lock up and leave
Gated communities, be they a retirement village or land lease community, more often than not also have CCTV cameras, giving you complete peace of mind that you can lock your door and leave for wherever you want to and for as long as you please….
“I said to Colin ‘I love this place’ and he replied, ‘So do I’”
Cynthia and Colin Bates had loved their family home for 22 years before it became too difficult and too costly to maintain. “I had been keen to downsize for some time, but Colin really didn’t want to move,” Cynthia said. “I began looking at retirement…
Poodles give oodles of love in retirement
Many people find love online nowadays but few fall in love at first sight. That’s what happened to Carolyn Patton who was smitten from when she saw a post online about a pretty miniature poodle. “I was looking for a second poodle, saw Daisy online…
Bernice McCluskey on life in an independent living unit
The community-based Not For Profit Echuca Community for the Aged (ECA) is celebrating 20 years of its retirement village, Cunningham Downs, in the town on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria. Bernice and her husband moved to Cunningham Downs in…
Making best use of the gifting rules
A very popular question when looking to retire is: how much can I gift without Centrelink stepping in? There are likely to be family members to think of, or perhaps you want to help financially if someone dear suffers a misfortune. The answer is gift…
The GemLife Games is the best advertisement for Over 50s living
An active lifestyle is an individual choice but you surely would be swept up by what is happening on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. More than 500 athletes, volunteers and spectators, aged in their 50s to 80s, will show age is no barrier to competing on the…