WA Seniors Card launches its 2024-25 Discount Directory
WA Seniors card members just received annual cost-of-living rebate, launched in 2009, of $160. The Western Australian Minister for Seniors, Don Punch, has announced the release of the 2024-25 WA Seniors Card Discount Directory. This year, a focus on increasing regional business partnerships is reflected…
The things you must know if considering retirement living
The age a person is legislated to enter a retirement village is 55, yet the expected retirement age for men in Australia is 66.2 years, the highest since 1972, and 64.8 years, the highest since 1971, for women. The latest Property Council PwC Retirement Living…
Ten-pin bowling is in every GemLife land lease resort and that is far from all
The marketing gurus of retirement living know the clubhouse, or even clubhouses in some resorts, are the first thing that grabs interested people’s attention. There is also word of mouth. Tricia Ferguson, who lives at GemLife Highlands in the town in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland,…
Three minutes of exercise really will help you get a good night’s sleep
Most people find that ageing causes people to have a harder time falling asleep, and that they wake up more during the night like never before. Would you believe that simple exercises before going to bed help can be good for you? This conflicts with…
Brenda Murnane’s has had 33 years in care and is still smiling
Brenda was the first resident when TriCare opened Mt Gravatt Retirement Community in Mount Gravatt, in Brisbane’s southern suburbs. “It’s very surreal celebrating 33 years of this incredible community – a lot has changed since the day I first moved in,” said Brenda, now aged…
$134 gas price rise coming from 1 August
Major energy companies AGL and Origin have now revealed their gas rate hikes to households. Electricity and gas payments are the responsibility of residents in retirement villages, and phone and internet charges. However, the price hikes will be felt more in homes where only one…
Living alone and social isolation badly affect mental health: Consider a retirement living community
The individual and combined effects of social isolation and loneliness on memory in middle-aged and older adults has been studied over six years and the findings are disturbing. The Canadian study published in Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics found both social isolation and loneliness had…
Is this Seniors Card the best in Australia?
Australians are supported to live their best, happiest, and healthiest lives as they age. Each state and territory government offers a Seniors Cards. To be eligible for a Seniors Card people need to be aged 60, a permanent resident and not be in more than…
Kidnapped gorilla reunited with residents at village in Melbourne’s northeast
The 1.5 metre garden ornament disappeared from Abound Communities’ Leith Park retirement village at St Helena, 21km northeast of Melbourne’s CBD, a month ago. The theft of the gorilla, affectionately known as Garry, upset the residents in the 140 self-contained independent living homes and the…
The security and benefits of living in a retirement village
A retirement village is a complex of apartments or villas that provides housing to people aged over 55. A few operators state they are for 75 plus residents and the average age of residents entering villages is 75. The traditional appeal of retirement villages is…