Section 2
Increasing Retirement Community provision For those areas which choose to develop Retirement Communities offering care and support as an option which meets their population’s needs, this next section explores how such developments can best be enabled in place. Much of the content in this section of the report is drawn from the Stakeholder Roundtable which brought together members from ARCO and CCN alongside representatives of the District Councils’ Network (DCN). The discussion from the roundtable highlighted two main areas of concern: (a) how the concept of Retirement Communities should be properly defined consistently for professionals and the public; and (b) the challenges around balancing the differing drivers that determine the needs of providers and councils respectively, particularly where social care and planning services are delivered by different authorities.
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