Searching for retirement destinations?

Increasing numbers of retirees are relocating to resorts and coastal towns according to one of retirement rentals company. Most popular destinations in the UK for seniors this year include Bournemouth, London, Cheltenham, Eastbourne, Exeter followed by Pool, Porthsmouth Torquay, Bromley and Southport.

People who are willing to sell property in Oxford or other towns before Christmas and consider moving to assisted living homes should start listing their property on the market by 28 September on average according to Move with Us. Some property sellers might need to put their property on market even earlier – those living in North East should list property around 9^th August, those in Wales 18^th August.

Quality of Care Service Should be Improved

The good care guide suggests that children are getting a better standard of care than elderly people with 88% of nurseries and 91% of nanny agencies achieving top approval ratings in quality of care, care homes only receive 78% in contrast.

31% of home care agencies are described as having poor or bad levels of care. Another third described them as poor or bad value for money.These results reveal a lack of investment in the care industry with calls for a drastic change to quality of staff, feedback and other areas.

A lot of the public opinion suggests a belief that the care industry is more focused on money than quality of care. Complaints of poor care and mismanaged medication are frequent, poor communication and rough staff.

High turnover for carers, zero hour contracts and unfair expectations are said to be a major cause of this. Care needs more investment and while childcare is rapidly improving and seeing massive investments, care for the elderly is not.

However, the growing number of assisted living developments are designed to provide the best quality of service to older people.

Interesting Facts About Aging

People tend to get happier when they get older. 

According to a new research that was based on 340,000 Americans aged between 18 and 85 has revealed that people become happier in their later age. The life is quite content for people aged 18 – people tend to be concerned about all negative things that happens, however it is mainly till the age of 50. After the age of 50, people tend to see the world not as troublesome as before 50.

 

People who think about falling over usually fall over more frequently.

Stay positive – negative things might cause negative consequences. 500 people aged 70-90 were surveyed by the University of South Wales, and revealed that people who were usually anxious about falling over actually do that as often as those who were not worrying about it.

The teeth of older people gets less sensitive

The reason is that the inner hard tissue becomes stronger - as it is formed between the teeth enamel and nerves it does protect teeth from being too sensitive.

Expected world population of older people rise

It is expected the world’s population of people aged over 60 is going to increase by 11% between 2000 and 2050, meaning that the number of people aged over 60 will increase from 605 million to about 2 billion.

The need for long-term care is going to increase

As there will be more people who live longer (more people will get to their 80s and 90s), the need for care is expected to increase significantly. Because of the increasing number of seniors who will not be able to live independently as they will have limited mobility as well as mental and other health issues, there will be an increase in home nursing, assisted living, retirement villages and other care institutions.