"Dear Ministers,
There are many reasons why the Royal Commission into Aged Care should include Retirement Villages but I would like to draw your attention to one critical matter.
The industry direction for residential Aged Care and Retirement Villages is a closer relationship and where possible a joint facility where the operator is a registered care provider, providing in home care to the residents of the retirement village section.
- This leads to aged Australians spending a longer period in a retirement village and a shorter period in residential aged care. Critically this will mean older Australians will spend most of their latter years under State Government legislation rather than Commonwealth legislation.
Professor Tim Kyng from Macquaire University and Paul Latimer from the Swinburne Law School have both made persuasive arguments for retirement villages to come under federal law.
The proposed Royal Commission should at a minimum look into whether retirement villages, for the reasons outlined in the material above, should come under Commonwealth law.
Thank you,
Les Scobie"
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