JANE SLADE discovers retirement communities offering a new rhythm to later life Judy Allen started learning the piano when she was six. By the age of 10 she was playing in her local church. After a career as a piano teacher and music examiner she is now, aged 82,...
Renting in retirement means being free of home ownership When Olive Young sold her home in IIford in Essex in 2006, she had one certainty about retirement – she no longer wanted to be a home owner. Divorced and in her late 50s at the time, Olive had sold her house to...
REDISCOVER AN INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLE THIS COMING SPRINGIt’s no coincidence that spring is the most popular time of the year for people to consider a move to a retirement development way of life. The weather is warmer and the flowers are beginning to bloom, and we have...
Widow Elizabeth Wood has discovered a friendly community and a garden she doesn’t have to care for at Penhurst Gardens in the Cotswolds Elizabeth Wood knew that taking the decision to move from a big house with a large garden would be difficult – particularly when...
Girlings offering city apartments with splendid views Annette Setterfield, 83, has been renting a retirement property in Exeter for five years. She had previously lived in the city until the 1980s, but moved to Sheffield with her husband. However, Annette’s husband...
