After looking at the wide choice of retirement villages and land lease communities on the website villages.com.au, be sure to check those you fancy have the latest technology.
Plugging into new technology like apps, automation systems, virtual reality, and wearable devices is revolutionising how retirement-living and land lease community residents live.
The benefits of retirement village and land lease community technology for residents include:
- Better able to live independently for longer;
- The ability for health providers to remotely monitor health and wellbeing;
- Remote monitoring of health to identify and improve health and wellbeing;
- Improved decision-making by the user, health care providers and family members resulted from detailed information captured by smart home devices; and
- Substantial cost savings by improving resident’s quality of life and reducing aged care needs
By embracing technology, retirement communities, and lifestyle retirement villages provide environments that promote personal growth, improved health and wellbeing and social engagement.
Lincoln Place, which owns and operates Over 50s land lease communities in NSW and the ACT, has launched a new resident app that brings everything from social events to maintenance requests into one easy-to-use, intuitive platform.
The Lincon Lifestyle App is being rolled out in a phased approach from this month, with Lincoln Lifestyle communities at Hunter Valley (Neath), Campbell (Cessnock), Griffith, Mudgee, Northern Rivers (Gulmarrad) and Officer the first to experience the benefits.
Lincoln Place Chief Executive Officer, Paul Yeo, said the app responds directly to feedback from Lincoln Place’s inaugural resident survey, addressing key resident needs while streamlining on-site operations.
“Our recent survey found nearly 80% of Lincoln Place residents prefer digital communication and we’re constantly innovating to make their experience even better,” Paul said.
“Many of our residents are tech-savvy, and this new app puts the entire community in the palm of their hand, while better supporting our on-the-ground processes.
“It’s intuitive and easy for residents to navigate, with regularly updated social calendars, a user-friendly facilities reservation system, live community alerts, and a digitised smart forms portal to make day-to-day life at Lincoln Place communities more seamless, sustainable, and connected.
“We’ve also enabled instant Bureau of Meteorology integrations delivering location-specific weather alerts automatically via push notifications to our residents’ devices.
“In the event our teams on the ground need to get instant messages out, they can send priority updates faster than a text, ensuring quick, reliable communications across the community.
“It bridges a key gap in digitised communications, giving residents seamless access to everything from social events to maintenance requests, for more connected, effortless living.”
Paul said one of the app’s standout features was a reservation system for each community’s shared Clubhouse and Wellness Centre amenities, which varied by site but commonly featured communal kitchens and dining areas, theatrettes, sporting facilities like bowling greens or pickleball courts, and wellness spaces for fitness and relaxation, all bookable with just a few taps.
Following a successful pilot phase over the next six-months, the company will use the trial to refine the offering and intends to rollout the app to its other communities in the future.