LiveMore Capital, specialists in lending to older people looking for mortgages, believes borrowers deserve better Most people don’t realise how significantly their financial freedom will change once they reach 50. Many remain unaware of the impact that crossing this...

​If any celebrity least personifies the concept of an elderly, fragile, pensioner it is Dame Joanna Lumley. She certainly defied her 77 years this week when she swept into Riverstone Kensington's launch party in a trendy cornflower-blue trouser suit and fashionable...

​Ann Carroll describes coming home to the UK from Spain and retiring to a McCarthy Stone apartment After living abroad for 15 years, Ann Carroll was keen to bring some Spanish sunshine to her new McCarthy Stone apartment at Queen’s Gate in Wokingham. “I’ve added...

The Audley Group has just bought the historic Headley Court near Leatherhead in Surrey, which it plans to convert into a retirement community. The 23-acre site has most recently been home to The Help for Heroes Rehabilitation Complex which has now relocated to...

It takes a certain skill to design a retirement village combining colours of Chelsea Football Club and the regency palette of Jane Austen As part of the Audley Villages development team, Bernard Interiors has been working on Audley's new scheme in Surrey due to...

McCarthy Stone homeowners are set to enjoy new interiors to reflect a bright outlook and vibrant life Meet Margaret Kingsley-Smith from McCarthy Stone’s retirement living development Hewson Court, Hexham. Margaret has made her new home distinctictly her own with the...

A classical viola player who formed a close ‘virtual’ connection with Churchill homeowners during the pandemic recently performed live at two developments, meeting some of her loyal fans for the first time The violist Caroline Harrison is a former co-principal viola...

“The Joy Club has actually given me a new lease of life,” says Kathy Feest, 68, who explains how membership has enabled her to draw on skills from her past The Bristol-based author and former Special Advisor at the Department of Health has been a member of since...

Signature Senior Lifestyle has just unveiled Hendon Hall, its latest care home in North West London Residents will live in period splendour if they move to Hendon Hall, Here contemporary luxury accommodation combines with five star amenities and award-winning care....

One couple has proved that it's never too late to find love, since falling for each other at a Signature care home Genevieve Mosely, 90, and Ernest Bradbury, 85, whose rooms are opposite one another, are now inseparable after meeting at Signature Moorlands Lodge in...

Orchard Yard, the new retirement community in the picturesque village of Wingham in Kent is offering the unusual opportunity to buy a three-bed detached house While retirement housing may conjure images of bungalows or cookie-cutter style apartments, Number 11 Orchard...

Hollyoak House, just off the High Street in Loughton, has 29 one-and-two bedroom apartments and generous outside spaces available to buyers aged 55 years plus The new apartment scheme in this Essex hotspot offers retirees the best of all worlds, in a post-pandemic era...

Do you feel the extra worry and cost of moving dampens the excitement of starting life in your new home? Enterprise Retirement Living (ERL) is offering a complimentary assisted-move service available on spring reservations*. ERL, which has three gorgeous retirement...

Being interviewed on live TV - that’s another thing off the bucket list! When retired teacher Sandra Falconer, 75, first heard about The Joy Club – an online activity club for retirees – she never expected that within a year of signing up, she would be appearing on...