The return of retirement village operator Sundale’s Community Christmas Carols was a bigger success than expected, with up to 2,500 attending this year’s event. “We knew it had always been a well-loved community event but we are now becoming aware of how important it always…

Retirement living operators and residents are always formulating ideas to make life better. In 2021, land lease operator Palm Lake Resorts launched a resident meal voucher system to try and help create a community at its over 50s lifestyle resorts – and it works across…

More than one in four (26%) households are now occupied by one person, which is up from 24% in 2016 and 18% in 1981, according to the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Of people living alone 55% were women and 45% were men. Half of…

Christmas is the time of year when the entire family gets together and the time of year when people seek out retirement living after seeing a deterioration in loved ones. Odyssey Lifestyle Care Communities Founder and CEO Phil Usher says there are several key physical…

As people age, there are occasions in which the eye colour can change. A change in eye color occurs in up to 15% of all Caucasian people.  An eye color change can be harmless, but there are some conditions that will cause the Iris to…

The Englishman’s 2020 murder mystery novel, which is being turned into a film for Netflix viewers, has encouraged residents at Uniting’s retirement villages to write a book. The First Thursday Memoir Writing Group consists of 13 residents from Uniting’s McRae-McMahon Place and Hawkins Place in…