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Echo, praising Feros, but now she just feels betrayed.

Kate came to live at Feros five years ago. ‘I reluctantly agreed to come up here for respite. So I came up here just for two weeks, but after a couple of days, I hurried to the office and said “put my name down”.’

‘Now, I’m in shock! They say we have to leave and they haven’t given us an exact timeframe, but they did say, legally, they only had to give us two weeks!’

Accepts the distress

A spokesperson for Feros Care said they completely accept that this news has created some distress for residents, their families and staff. The meeting with residents was the notification of the new strategy, they said, and follows the Feros Board’s review of Feros Village Byron Bay’s future.

The home no longer meets the federal government’s requirements for aged care, they say, and it is not feasible to bring it to the required standard.

Feros Care Chairman, Jason Bingham, told The Echo, ‘Our ambition for Byron Bay is to create a new intergenerational community, where seniors and younger adults live together in harmony. It will be based on the learnings from international models in the UK, US and Europe.

‘Feros Care is a charity, and the needs of our community come first. In the near future, we will invite our community to collaborate with us in re-imagining this development for our region’s seniors in Byron Bay.’

Feros Care, CEO, Karen Crouch,

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