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Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Retirement Village Residents a Frog in Boiling Water

Victorian retirement village residents are as vulnerable as a frog in boiling water, they don't know what is really happening to them.

The reality is a slow transfer of their hard earned capital wealth, not to their families, but to greedy corporations. Then they have to rely on the Australian taxpayer to fund their aged care costs.

The Victorian Labor government has just written an operator centric legislative framework to support this process.

retirement villages residents like frog in boiling water

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Function of Government

The role of government is to create an environment for commerce to function whilst at the same time protecting retirees and particularly vulnerable retirees from both financial and emotional harm emanating from that function.

The Victorian Retirement Villages Act 1986 provides the environment for commerce to function but fails to fully protect retirees from financial and emotional harm as a result of it.

The Victorian legislative definition of a retirement village in demanding the payment of an 'in-going' amount without the transfer of property ownership is a major contributor to that financial and emotional harm suffered by retirees.