Can a property development help you live longer? Or keep you healthy for longer, taking pressure off the UK’s overstretched National Health Service? Inspired Villages, the retirement community developer backed to the tune of £500M by Legal & General and NatWest Pension Funds, says yes. The developer has produced research that shows it can reduce the biological age of its residents by close to nine years through nudging them toward a healthier, more active lifestyle and helping to reduce isolation.
Helping residents live more healthily for longer is good for them, good for the company and, Inspired Villages said, good for the country: Healthier seniors equate to fewer visits to general practitioners and reduced stays in hospital, which offers the potential for the NHS to save money.Inspired Villages calls it an example… Read the full story here. |