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Mar 6, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
Few would suspect that a genteel retirement community in the heart of the Sussex countryside could inspire a blockbuster crime novel and star-studded Netflix movie. As you drive through the wrought-iron gates of St George’s Park, down a long drive flanked by open fields, you arrive in an extraordinary sanctuary that began life in 1866 as a convent for 40 nuns who looked after people in three care homes on the site.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
Even though the life expectancy age gap between men and women is narrowing, there is still a disproportionately higher number of women living in retirement communities. This may be an attraction for those chaps looking for a spouse or carer in later life, but it is proving a turn-off for those wanting male friends. Retirement communities are keen to promote their swimming pools, beauty treatments, craft rooms and Pilates classes, but these are not much of a magnet for men.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
It isn’t just wealthy non-doms who are looking to flee the UK, disillusioned retired people want to leave too. And it’s more than the promise of better weather and lower prices that is propelling them overseas. They cite high crime rates, a broken health system and “woke” values. Others are angry at the prospect of higher inheritance tax and having their pension pots raided by the taxman.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
Retired people care about saving the planet. “They are surprisingly vociferous,” says Michael Voges, chief executive of Arco, the regulating body for retirement communities. “If you look at Extinction Rebellion it is very often the very young and very old people taking part in protests.”Living in a net-zero community is important to Chris and Geraldine Philpott.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Jane Slade
Our walking-safari guide told us to keep in a straight line behind him and if we saw a big cat or elephant to stand still. ‘If you run, they will think you are game and will chase and kill you,’ he warned. ‘Stand still and they will back off.’ Then, he added: ‘Except the buffalo – he won’t stop, so just run like hell.’While you are much safer travelling in a big vehicle, there is nothing like exploring the bush on foot or in a canoe.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
The “later living” industry has long had a problem finding appropriate language to describe its homes and homeowners or tenants. The word resident sounds like a care-home inmate; seniors is too American; pensioners too pejorative and retirees, distinctly passé. Now they are throwing out the word “retirement” in a bid to distinguish modern, independent-living schemes from the nursing and care sector.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Jane Slade
The retired may wince at the term “luxury property porn” being applied to high-end retirement schemes, but the developments featured in Channel 5’s The World’s Most Luxurious Retirement Homes have serious wow factor — ranging from a glitzy palace to a modern spa hotel and a stately home. The ones in the United States drip with ornate chandeliers, shiny marble floors, flashy spas and feature wealthy residents dining on lobster and champagne.
