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I had an interesting conversation a couple of weeks ago with a neighbour in her mid-sixties - let’s call her Sandra - whose mother lives in a retirement village. “Oh, have I got a story for you,” she told me when we caught up in the dog park after the New Year.
How many times have you muttered expletives about the design of some ordinary, everyday item that has no regard for the older user? How on earth are you meant to be able to read that label or open that package? Why do things need to have SO much packaging anyway? Why can’t remote controls have bigger buttons and fewer of them? Happy with online banking? What about chairs?
Australia’s second richest man, the creator of the Meriton apartment group, Harry Triguboff, has announced his next strategic move is likely to be retirement villages.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk (pictured) says his council is working on policy that within six months should make inner suburban retirement village and care developments economically more attractive.
Do you have a plan to start a community garden; establish an exercise group, or set up a computer club? Maybe you’re part of a bush regeneration club, a quilting group or you want to look at ways to be more energy efficient.
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