IN RECENT weeks this newspaper has revealed the details of several outstanding developments proposed in our local area.
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From multimillion-dollar medical facilities, to our own business people living their dreams and creating vibrant tourist accommodation facilities in the city’s satellite suburbs.
Among the latest is a $42.6 million seniors’ living complex off Moore Creek Rd, which developers have identified as a need for our ageing population – and what a ripper it is.
It is a rather substantial investment in our community, and in a location that’s in close proximity to the CBD – for this we should be grateful.
We are talking about a large-scale new development.
With 57 self-contained rooms and a 62-bed residential nursing home facility, the development will be able to cater for a substantial amount of residents well into the future.
There will be a community centre, communal living spaces and nurses quarters and a dementia wing – the essential ingredients to ensure those who choose to move into retirement villages or in ailing health are taken care of when they need a high standard of care the most.
It is good to see a significant investment in our elderly population and this is one of many retirement village or senior’s living developments going ahead in Tamworth as the need for safe, comfortable and affordable retirement living becomes more apparent.
Local Seniors Social Group coordinator Margaret Nash has hit the nail on the head when she says we do have an ageing population. But with this ageing population comes a greater sense of community responsibility to take care of the people who have taken care of us.
Mrs Nash also said the industry needs to cater to all ends of the income spectrum, and according to the executives at RSL LifeCare, this is what the organisation has set out to do.
The prospect of further development in this industry is exciting. RSL LifeCare says the proposed facility could help create about 80 more jobs, not to mention the jobs and the money generated from construction early next year.
It is hoped the centre would be open for residents by 2020 and we can only hope the development is everything our aging population would want it to be.
