Author Archives: john graham

A Retirement Village is a complex operation of housing and care. To function well they need to be fully integrated with the wider community and fully understood by statutory services. They are also most effective when fully interwoven with local … Continue reading →

My last three blogs have looked at the origins of ExtraCare’s Retirement Villages; the development rationale; and the model for care and support. The immediate question then posed was is this financially viable as the community ages. The simplistic answer … Continue reading →

This is a follow on from my two previous blogs. The key issue is “Who pays ?” The starting point is to acknowledge that later life can be expensive, especially if you need care and support. The second thing is … Continue reading →

This is a continuation of my previous post, which looked back to our earliest thinking about extra care housing at Princethorpe Court, which opened its doors in 1986. That then was later followed by a much larger scheme which embodied … Continue reading →

Last week my regular correspondent to this blog posed a challenging question about the future of retirement villages. David Freeman and his wife Molly have been residents of the ExtraCare retirement village at Lovat Fields in Milton Keynes since it … Continue reading →