{"id":23610,"date":"2016-06-28T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=23610"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T05:12:47","slug":"retirement-community-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=23610","title":{"rendered":"Retirement community &#8211; an idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The AWWA Senior Home community article in the Sunday Times (26\/6) \u00a0is an eye-opener on how it operates. \u00a0\u00a0There is a lot of freedom of movement for the residents. I think this is a good model for a retirement village, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Sg style<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The studio apartment blocks can easily be adapted to a retirement community by following the AWWA Senior Home model. As the occupants of the studio apartments are owners of the apartments, they would need to pay a fee for the services provided, hence it is important that the retirement community of studio apartments be managed \u00a0by a govt. department to keep costs affordable for the residents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently I visited a friend who got a studio apartment in Hougang. She told me her neighbouring units are taken but the occupants are seldom at home. This \u00a0implies \u00a0that these elderly buyers of the studio apartments have a place to stay but thought it a good measure to buy a studio apartment. These early birds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now my friend, flushed with cash by downgrading to a studio apartment, \u00a0is going on a \u00a0tour of Europe. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Life is good<\/span>. :)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AWWA Senior Home community article in the Sunday Times (26\/6) \u00a0is an eye-opener on how it operates. \u00a0\u00a0There is a lot of freedom of movement for the residents. I think this is a good model for a retirement village, Sg style. The studio apartment blocks can easily be adapted to a retirement community by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=23610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retirement community &#8211; an idea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-23610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","tag-retirement-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23614,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610\/revisions\/23614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}