They met at a retirement village and fell in love and married
When 90-year-old Carolyn Mason saw a man sitting alone at a table in her independent senior living community, she thought she would introduce herself. Harry Mason, 83, was still grieving his late wife of 57 years, whom he dearly loved. It wasn’t love at first…
Retirement village resident John’s blister-pack bonanza
When John Flynn Retirement Village resident John Simpson first started collecting blister packs for his local Chemist Warehouse, he considered himself a “simple man with a simple plan”. It all started early this year as he was lining up to get his prescriptions filled. He…
The sense of community is essential for well-being: it’s of paramount importance in retirement living and land lease communities
Moving into retirement living, be it a village or lifestyle community, invites a sense of community. Not everyone wants to be part of a community, but creating a sense of community for yourself as you age has many benefits: It meets social needs, It meets…
The Best 30 Years: Reliving the TV series showing what retirement living, aged care and home care really are
This month marks the two-year anniversary of our five-part TV series ‘The Best 30 Years’ so it’s time for a trip down memory lane. The first episode of The Best 30 Years was broadcast on Nine Network’s Gem platform on Saturday, 22 October 2022 and…
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….
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…
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…
65 is no longer the age to be labelled old, says this aged care and retirement living CEO
Catherine Stoddart, who became the CEO of West Australian Not For Profit provider Brightwater Care in April 2022, wants to start a “brave conversation” about changing the definition of elderly to 70. People are living longer. In the last 100 years, the life expectancy of…
The biggest challenge in retirement is solved in a village or lifestyle resort
In 1938, researchers from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, embarked on a study that continues to this day to find out: what makes people happy in life? The researchers gathered health records from 724 people from all over the world, asking detailed questions about their…
An active lifestyle is most important to more than 50% of over 65s
If thinking it is time to sell the family home and considering retirement living, make sure it has what you desire. Bolton Clarke, which operates 38 retirement communities from North Queensland down to Victoria and across to Western Australia, operates the Bolton Clarke Research Institute….