The Age Care Crisis in Australia

Baby Boomers: The Demographic and Economic Context
This  website  adopts  the Australian  Bureau  of  Statistics  (ABS)  (2006). Baby boomers  are defined as  those  born  between  1946  and  1965
In the next few years the number  of  people  aged  65-84  years  is  projected  to  grow  from  2.4  million  in 2007 to 6.4 million in 2056;  the  number  of  people  aged  85  years  and  over  is projected  to  grow  five-fold  from 334,000 to 1.7 million over this period.
This represents a crisis for the current systems to support the aged in Australia.

The crux of the problem:
Baby Boomers are headed to crash all existing systems and will live much longer than their means allow.

Some Options:

• Do nothing  
  
• Tweak existing systems
• See what happens
• Introduce voluntary assisted euthanasia
• Spend lifetime savings and investments and then lean on our children

OR… Find a new way forward.
This is what we are going to explore

Mission Statement
We, baby boomers will put back into the existing systems, strengthen them and enjoy the benefits of true financial freedom at the same time.

 Do something differently
 Help me put Australia on the map by being the first country to get a solution to   this challenge.

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There are 2 reasons that people do things or change what they are doing...
Survival or Hedonism
This is primarily survival, however will enable material assets to last much longer and go much further so we will appeal to both.

What has worked?

• Permaculture
  
• Earthships
  
• Aquaponics
  
• Students working for accommodation on site
  
• Maintaining independence for the residents
  
• Keeping people in work as long as they desire

What has not worked?

• People having to work together in the system
  
• A cult environment
• Giving up the current way of life
• Unfair duties
• Loss of independence

Limitations

• We require you to give up nothing so keep your home however you can never own an Earthship, it is not an investment.
  
• It is a solution to help you keep your lifetime savings and investments though. Come and go as you please.
• Your children may not live here, let them live in your conventional home, visitors dwellings can be booked for limited periods at a reasonable cost.
• Pets should be aged and rescue unless coming with the owner (willing to debate though)

What are people prepared to give up ?

Nothing, why should they?
We do not require our clients to give up anything.

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