{"id":3794,"date":"2024-11-21T06:09:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T06:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.villages.com.au\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2024-11-21T06:11:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T06:11:32","slug":"are-you-a-retirement-village-resident-the-retirement-village-resident-associations-want-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.villages.com.au\/retirement\/are-you-a-retirement-village-resident-the-retirement-village-resident-associations-want-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a retirement village resident? The Retirement Village Resident Associations\u2019 want your help"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3794\" class=\"elementor elementor-3794\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c350168 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c350168\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-312fe19\" data-id=\"312fe19\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d964ba elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4d964ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>F<strong>or the first time ever, the Retirement Village Residents Association in each state has agreed to run a national survey following the claims raised recently by the ABC\u2019s 7.30 program.<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cRecent media reports have raised questions about the terms and conditions associated with living in a retirement village, and how well residents understood their contract before they moved in. Aspects such as exit (or deferred management) fees have been raised as one particular area of concern,\u201d said Roger Pallant, Vice President of the NSW RVRA, on behalf of, and with approval of, all state RVRAs.<\/p><p>\u201cThe Retirement Village Residents Association (RVRA) in each state have combined forces to investigate the actual situation by asking the people, like you, who are living in retirement villages about their experience. We have created a survey which includes questions about why you shifted into your retirement village and how well you felt you understood the details of your contract when you signed it.<\/p><p>The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete, and is completely anonymous.<\/p><p><strong>Click here to access the survey<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSc3MEL7lC-nnUwfdXAKC0icHOtbYe1mTuaM9SW8RRSm0YvY-g\/viewform\">RVRA National Survey 2024<\/a><\/p><p>The Retirement Village Residents Association has already received 2,000 responses, but is seeking more to ensure the findings have credibility.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-de95517 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"de95517\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e8b6156\" data-id=\"e8b6156\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-915dab1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"915dab1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Picture2-1-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3797\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Picture2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Picture2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Picture2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Picture2-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Picture2-1-585x439.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Picture2-1.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-714b154 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"714b154\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Roger Pallant (right) with Retirement Living Council Executive Director Daniel Gannon. <\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dd5bdc8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dd5bdc8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb88893\" data-id=\"cb88893\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29b377d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29b377d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The responses will then be analysed by an independent expert data analyst and a final report prepared with the information to be used to better understand residents\u2019 experiences when shifting into a retirement village.<\/p><p>\u201cWe believe this is an important initiative that will allow us to provide information at the national and state-by-state levels,\u201d said Roger.<\/p><p>\u201cThe results will be made available to operators of retirement villages for them to review their current practices and make improvements if appropriate. The RVRAs will use the data to review the education and information services they provide to their members and to make recommendations for broader sector improvement.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>The final survey report will be available in December 2024 at <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rvra.org.au\/\"><strong>www.rvra.org.au<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, the Retirement Village Residents Association in each state has agreed to run a national survey following the claims raised recently by the ABC\u2019s 7.30 program. \u201cRecent media reports have raised questions about the terms and conditions associated with living in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retirement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}