WHY ATTEND

When it’s the Australian retirement living industry that takes out the highest score in the prestigious Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, you can expect the 2023 Retirement Living Summit will un-dress and parade the industry gold standard.

There’ll be a lot to see and plenty to remember.

As an industry we need to take time to reflect and review our response to the long and sometimes-rapid periods of forensic investigation, active learning and local action. Indeed, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, followed by COVID-19 and its multiple sequels, were our biggest ever learning experiences.

Through the abundance of social networking, (re)learning and professional development opportunities, the Summit enables us to take stock of who our customers are and what they expect, what older Australians need and what they want, as well as what we do well, what we don’t, and where we can improve. 

It’s the place for “ah ha” and “wow”, a good place for “light bulb” moments. It’s a forum to sound-board meaningful solutions to serious problems like climate change, how to inject important age-friendly housing supply into a market under duress, and to keep raising industry benchmarks.

The Summit is also a great opportunity to join your industry colleagues throughout Australia to hear countless local stories about community leadership, resilience in times of adversity, innovative age-friendly design, enabling structures and form, architectural excellence, world-leading environment and sustainability practice, emerging technology, integrated care and people-centred services. 

And, to top it off, the Summit’s signature event, the 2023 National Retirement Living Awards, will help us identify, then celebrate, the “best of the best” in our industry who are continually pushing and pulling the rest of us closer to world’s best practice.

For those of us who want our industry to do better and be better for increasingly more older Australians, the National Retirement Living Summit and National Retirement Living Awards on the Gold Coast from 21-23 June 2023 is the place to be.

Aristotle puts it best: