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Elderly Face Loss Of Their Rental Homes.
Nov 18th, 2010 at 11:24am
 
Elderly residents forced out as retirement village operators redevelop


DOZENS of residents in their 80s and 90s face the loss of their rental homes as retirement village operators redevelop in search of higher profits.

For the third time in a year, a "boutique seniors community" has been sold in southeast Queensland, leaving the 46 rental tenants – the oldest aged 94 – to find new homes or pay $250,000 to buy their units.

Lifestyle Estates at Redbank Plains in Ipswich informed tenants last week the property had been bought by Seasons Supported Living, which planned to turn it into an aged care facility.

For Olive Fisher, 81, it is the second time in a year she has lost her home after being forced out of Village Life on Bribie Island last December.

Aged care experts have warned that a recent change in federal funding meant it was more profitable to operate as a higher-care facility than as rented retirement homes.



Elderly people who are renting have no more rights than other tenants in the private market, leaving them at the mercy of landlords.

Aged Care Queensland chief executive Barry Ashcroft said an ageing society had sparked considerable growth in retirement villages, but it was often difficult to strike a balance between making a profit and delivering care to residents.

"When you have a rental village, you need to be sure you're building at the right prices and renting at the right prices to provide a good service to the community," Mr Ashcroft said. "Like any business, it's about your input costs and costs of operation; you have to make a profit to stay in business."

Mavis Grayson, 80, said she was angry residents were not better informed about the sale at Ipswich on Monday.

"They kept it very quiet. Nobody knew anything about it," Ms Grayson said.

"Forty-odd people have been given their comeuppance and told they have to find other accommodation. We've been crossed off as if we're being put in the grave."

Mrs Fisher said she planned to live with her daughter, although other residents faced a more uncertain future.

"I think it's a terrible thing to put old people out like they've done," Mrs Fisher said. "I had to move out of Bribie last year. Now I've got to do it again."

William Quilty, 72, said he had been invited by the new owners to buy his single-bedroom unit for $250,000, but did not have the money.

"I'm not very happy with what's happened," Mr Quilty said. "My daughter's looking for somewhere else, but she hasn't been real impressed with what she's seen."

Last December, more than 100 elderly residents at Village Life at Caloundra and Bribie Island were forced out after the retirement villages were converted into aged-care facilities by Seasons.

But managing director of Seasons, Paul Browne, said had Lifestyle Estates not been bought by his company, it would have closed down.

"It's never run higher than about 50 per cent occupancy," Mr Browne said.

"The whole of the rental accommodation for pensioners industry is over-supplied.

"Many of them have had to close."

Lifestyle Estates' general manager Matt Loveday said occupancy rates across the retirement village market were averaging 80 per cent – but needed to be 95 per cent.

"It was a tough decision to sell Redbank, but it was ultimately a business decision," Mr Loveday said.

Ipswich councillor Paul Tully said it was disgraceful elderly people could be treated so deplorably. He called for the State Government to introduce laws to protect them.
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Reply #1 - Nov 18th, 2010 at 11:32am
 
Greedy property developers?....I don't believe it.
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Which has NOTHING to do with any government and everything to do with dodgey owners, who would have done the same thing under Liberal, Labor OR the Greens....
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Reply #3 - Nov 18th, 2010 at 10:32pm
 


This sort of thing should be illegal.

It most certainly is immoral.

Greed reigns supreme, yet again.
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Reply #4 - Nov 18th, 2010 at 11:28pm
 
Why don't they just build Soylent Green factories and turn old people into green biscuits to feed to others. They can make money out of that as well Sad
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Reply #5 - Nov 18th, 2010 at 11:29pm
 
gizmo_2655 wrote on Nov 18th, 2010 at 5:33pm:
Which has NOTHING to do with any government and everything to do with dodgey owners, who would have done the same thing under Liberal, Labor OR the Greens....


So what happened to the Australian Fair Go that Dudd was talking about ??
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In August 2021, Newcastle Coroner Karen Dilks recorded that Lisa Shaw had died “due to complications of an AstraZeneca COVID vaccination”.
 
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Reply #6 - Nov 19th, 2010 at 5:07am
 
Sir lastnail wrote on Nov 18th, 2010 at 11:29pm:
gizmo_2655 wrote on Nov 18th, 2010 at 5:33pm:
Which has NOTHING to do with any government and everything to do with dodgey owners, who would have done the same thing under Liberal, Labor OR the Greens....


So what happened to the Australian Fair Go that Dudd was talking about ??


I think it the Australian Fair Go, went about the same time as Whitlam...
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Reply #7 - Nov 19th, 2010 at 5:28am
 
gizmo_2655 wrote on Nov 19th, 2010 at 5:07am:
Sir lastnail wrote on Nov 18th, 2010 at 11:29pm:
gizmo_2655 wrote on Nov 18th, 2010 at 5:33pm:
Which has NOTHING to do with any government and everything to do with dodgey owners, who would have done the same thing under Liberal, Labor OR the Greens....


So what happened to the Australian Fair Go that Dudd was talking about ??


I think it the Australian Fair Go, went about the same time as Whitlam...




Yeah!

About the same time as Whitlam lost power.

The poor and disadvantaged haven't had much of
a 'fair go' since, apart from a short period under Hawke/Keating.

They CERTAINLY didn't get a fair go under Howard, and this
current shower of shyt in Can'tberra are no better.
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Reply #8 - Nov 19th, 2010 at 5:36am
 
its good for growth and shareholders

get back to work taxable asset/bloodbag.

these ones pay no tax anymore so bye bye it is said

forgiveness

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Reply #9 - Nov 25th, 2010 at 10:00pm
 
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Put them into their own winnebago's, give them a road map and let them go out and explore.
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