Aged care provider Life Care has outlined its master plan to upgrade residential properties in its portfolio.

Architects Marchese Partners and Thinc Projects have been engaged to steer the redevelopment of facilities in Glen Osman, Joslin, Everard Park, Reynella and Life Care’s recent acquisition in Norwood.

The investment plan will cost the aged care not-for-profit $180m and will take around ten years to implement, according to Chief Executive Allen Candy (pictured).

"It will involve a significant upgrade of all of our facilities, bringing them into the 21st century," he said of the plan aimed at modernising and de-institutionalising the group's facilities.

Work on a $9m expansion of Life Care’s Aldinga Beach Court has already begun, brining 35 new beds and as many as 20 permanent new positions to the Fleurieu region.

"What people expect from aged-care providers is going to change significantly in the future and people are becoming a lot more demanding,” said Mr Candy.

“We want our facilities to be a lot less institutionalised, where the settings are more home-like and we want to take a lot of the negative stigma away from nursing homes."