Villages Info Centre

CIMC Modular Building Executive GM, John Zendler, gave a frank and detailed presentation on modular construction at our LEADERS SUMMIT. He summarised that just 10% of projects suited this approach. His first aged care project is WA’s Craigcare with its Ascot development (pictured) which is 15 stories and is made up of 57 retirement village apartments above a five level aged care facility.

Read Story

Founder and CEO of ‘disruptor’ digital home care service Better Caring presented at our LEADERS SUMMIT the case for engaging with village and home care operators. His business case was summarised as: “Better Caring enables a community of independent care workers (the businesses of one) to offering services directly to their clients and via providers”

Read Story

Few people understand the retirement village sector better than Tim Russell; he built RetireAustralia from scratch to the country’s fourth largest operator in 10 years, with 26 big villages. So his first new business initiative since resigning from RetireAustralia last May will be interesting. He gave a ‘first glimpse’ at our LEADERS SUMMIT, and the news is he is going ‘digital’ with ‘care’. Called Five Good Friends, Tim describes it: “The FiveGood Friends model is a ‘community centred’ peer-to-peer ‘help’ marketplace”.

Read Story

Attention Australian politicians, policy makers, planners and bureaucrats. Oh, and property developers and retirement village operators too. I would like to have it on record that I am very much looking forward to downsizing from my family home (or ‘rightsizing’ as COTA prefers to say).

Read Story

Are you over 60? Do you know your way around a web browser like Google Chrome, Explorer, Safari or Firefox? Consider yourself a dab hand with Facebook and Skype? Are you an enthusiastic convert to online banking or shopping?

Read Story