Arundel

The Security of Living at Seachange Village Arundel

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At Seachange Village Arundel, we have gone out of our way to provide a state of the art over 50’s lifestyle village. We feature 24 hour security to make sure that you are able to live the way you want to in a place where you want to live with the people you want to enjoy life with, something you won’t find at a traditional retirement village.

We have two ways of providing security to our homeowners. First, we provide everything you could get in a world class resort, a stone’s throw away from your front door. Second, we provide state of the art security to keep you safe.

How We Keep You Safe

First of all, Seachange Village Arundel is a gated community. Besides our staff, only residents and their guests are allowed access. But we also make sure that your home is secure once you are inside the village. Visitors are identified with a guest lanyard so you can be assured they have been invited in. Each home has an electronic remote control garage, a telephone and an intercom, with some of our newer homes fitted with a video intercom. Internal phones are located around the village for ease of contacting your home or someone else in the community. To make the village even safer, an onsite caretaker is always present at Seachange Village Arundel. This ensures that everything runs smoothly and the lifestyle is as safe as possible.

And You Don’t Have to Leave to Have a Great Day

While we encourage an active lifestyle, we also provide the amenities as good as or better than any over 50’s resort on the Gold Coast. Here are just a few of the world class facilities we feature at Seachange Village Arundel:

Golf putting greens, golf driving nets, championship lawn bowls, floodlit tennis courts, heated indoor pool and spa, floodlit tennis courts, a tennis pavilion, a cinema, an arts and crafts studio, a sauna, a library, a gymnasium, a residents’ kitchen, a workshop, a sports bar, Teppanyaki BBQ, a wine cellar, a dance floor, a meeting room and more.

For those days you choose to go out, you are less than twenty minutes from four great golf courses and a host of Gold Coast amenities and let’s not forget the fully equipped shopping centre directly across the road.

To learn more about living at Seachange Village Arundel, call us today: 1800 652 797.

Only 10% of Australians over 50 Get Enough Exercise

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At our active adult community called Seachange Village Arundel, you can be one of the 10% who always get enough exercise.

If you are a senior who doesn’t live in an active adult community such as Seachange Village Arundel, you may not be getting enough exercise. That is according to the Government of Victoria, who have a great online resource called “Better Health Channel.”

Better Health Channel draws on a host of research into ageing. It all indicates that for those of us over 50, exercise helps us maintain our independence longer, reduces the risk of getting sick and helps us recover from illness faster. All load-bearing exercise helps us keep bone density and muscular strength, too.

In addition, forms of exercise that are often done in groups, such as tennis, walking, dancing or cycling, provide a social component that enhances our lifestyle at any age. Here are some statistics and facts about exercise, courtesy of the State Government of Victoria.

Are You One of the Active 10%?

According to Better Health Channel, only 10% of Australians over 50 get enough exercise to extend their lives or provide any cardiovascular benefit. There are some studies indicating that more than half of what used to be seen as “inevitable decline due to age” can actually be avoided by exercise.

If you are over 50, it is important to stay active. If you are over 65, it is even more important. Luckily, it is never too late to start getting exercise. No matter how old you are, how “out of shape” you may think you are, the human body always responds to exercise.

This is documented in the two irrefutable physical laws upon which physical therapy is based: Davis’ Law and Wolff’s Law. We won’t bother you with technical or medical jargon, but the bottom line is this: if you exercise, your bone and muscle will improve according to the demands you place upon them.

Benefits of Exercise for Over 50’s

Muscle Mass: If you don’t exercise, you can expect to lose 3.5 kg of lean muscle mass every ten years. While that doesn’t sound like much, remember that muscle burns fat even when resting. In addition, the muscle you lose is usually “fast twitch” muscle, which governs coordination and strength.

When you exercise, especially with any form of resistance training, your muscle mass will begin to increase, even if you haven’t been exercising for long. In fact, many studies are beginning to suggest that we don’t lose muscle mass due to “age,” but due to not exercising our muscles. The bottom line: exercise builds muscle and helps stop muscle mass from declining.

Bone Density: Your bones are storehouses for minerals such as calcium. Those minerals are what give your bones density. If you aren’t putting weight on your bones, they stop storing minerals and become weak. This process starts when you are 40 but really kicks into gear by 50 if you aren’t careful.

If you exercise, especially weight bearing exercise such as walking, you are keeping your bones dense, strong and healthy, making you “immune” to conditions such as osteoporosis.

Heart and Lungs: There are many schools of thought on what constitutes “cardiovascular conditioning.” A study from last month in the US suggests that 20 minutes of walking per day is enough to provide cardiovascular benefits. Traditional knowledge suggests that you have to raise your heartbeat to 70 percent of a number derived by subtracting your age from 220 to claim cardiovascular benefits.

The more recent study suggests that walking 20 minutes per day can extend your life as well as most forms of exercise.

Weight: We know this is a “no-brainer:” exercise helps you lose weight. It also reduces the stress on your joints.

Why Seachange Village Arundel is so Great for Active Over 50’s

We provide numerous opportunities to exercise and participate in sports however you want. If you like to exercise alone, you can. If you want to enjoy being active with kindred spirits who are also over 50, you will find plenty of “exercise buddies” at Seachange Village Arundel.

To learn more, call us today: 1800 652 797.

Imagine Living in a Village Filled with Kindred Spirits

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If you are looking for a lifestyle resort on the Gold Coast instead of a retirement or old age home, you know who you are. You are over 50 but you are more active than many of your peers. As you have gotten older, you have done well enough that you don’t need to work anymore. Now, it’s time to enjoy the rest of your life. You have kept yourself healthy and you have plenty of energy.

As you look down the street of your current home, you realise you are different. Many of your older friends have moved away. There are some nice younger families in your neighbourhood, but it isn’t quite the same as when they were all your age. No matter how nice they are, they haven’t lived through what you have lived through. They haven’t seen what you have seen.

No matter how well you get along with your neighbours, there is something missing: a feeling of kinship.

What it’s Like at Seachange Village Arundel

At Seachange Village Arundel, you will find an entire village full of active over 50’s like yourself. We offer the finest in active over 50’s living with world class facilities. With premium resort facilities such as a sports bar, heated indoor swimming pool, cinema, lighted tennis courts and championship outdoor bowls, we make it easy for you to be active without even leaving the comfort of your own village.

But the best part of all is all of the kindred spirits you will meet at Seachange Village Arundel. You will be living in a village filled with active over 50’s who are just like you. While they may be from different walks of life, they have lived through the same times and faced most of the same challenges as you.

They understand what you are feeling. They see life a lot like you do. They are also there to enjoy their later years with the same passion they put into becoming successful.

To learn more about Seachange Village Arundel, call us today: 1800 652 797.

Seachange for Brisbane Retirees

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Brisbane retirees Ben & Ruth Benelisha swapped their inner city home of Brisbane for a lifestyle change at Seachange Village Arundel over 50s lifestyle resort – which is currently setting the benchmark in over 50’s resort style living at the Gold Coast.

WHEN Ben and Ruth Benelisha retired, they knew it was time for a sea change. Retirement for us was about enjoying a vibrant, active lifestyle that afforded us freedom, independence and security,” Ben said.

“Although we had enjoyed our time in Brisbane, we were tired of the constant gardening and home maintenance. It was time for a change.”

The couple swapped their suburban Brisbane home in favour of coastal lifestyle change at the award winning over 50s lifestyle resort, Seachange Village Arundel on the Gold Coast.

Located in an established suburb in the centre of the Gold Coast, Seachange Village Arundel is successfully enticing retirees with its ‘easy resort living’. The community offers modern, low-maintenance living in a secure gated complex and a five-star Country Club with facilities including a pool and cinema.

“We fell in love with Seachange Village Arundel immediately,” Ruth said.

“We were fortunate to take a guided tour with one of the existing residents and they were able to tell us how much they enjoyed living at Seachange.

“They had made some great new friends and they enjoyed a huge variety of recreational and social activities every week. They had the freedom to enjoy a relaxed easygoing lifestyle or one that was a bit more action packed.

“We knew that Seachange Village Arundel was the perfect solution for us.”

The Benelishas purchased a home in the village, where prices start from $469,000. All homes are single-level dwellings set amoungst lush landscaping that provides a sense of peace an tranquility. Every home is drenched with premium finishes featuring 2.7m ceilings, stone benches and European appliances.

Best of all, they say they don’t have any maintenance worries. All lawn and garden maintenance is taken care of by Seachange Village Arundel.

“I’ve finished with all that outdoor work – I can watch one of the in-house landscapers do it for me,” said Mr Benelisha.

The couple has taken to village life with enthusiasm. They help run the communities Welcome Centre, they dance, organise parties and walk in the adjacent conservation listed Coombabah Lakelands Recreation Reserve to which the community has direct access.

They also regularly access the world class 5-star Country Club which is integral to the Seachange Village Arundel lifestyle.

The Country Club also hosts the Moncrieff University of the Third Age (U3A) campus. Residents are able to participate in a variety of courses available, along with U3A members.

They can also join the multitude of social groups that have formed at the Club.

“We love living at Seachange,” Ruth said.

“Everything we need is at our fingertips – there’s a shopping centre across the road and we enjoy taking walks in the wetland reserve next door. There’s a bus stop outside, the Helensvale Train Station is just 5km away and it’s also an easy drive to Brisbane to visit family and friends via the M1.”

Seachange Project Director Phil Goodman said a growing portion of residents at both Seachange Village Arundel and its sister community, Seachange Emerald Lakes, were coming from Brisbane.

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“Many former city dwellers like Ben and Ruth are escaping the rat race and moving to the area,” he said.

“The Gold Coast is emerging as Queensland’s retirement capital with the highest number of over 50s lifestyle resorts in the region, and Seachange Village Arundel and Seachange Emerald Lakes are leading the pack.

“Seniors are seeking the low maintenance rewarding nature of lifestyle resorts after a lifetime of mowing lawns and cleaning pools.

“Seachange Village Arundel offers them the ultimate alternative – spacious homes, luxury fittings and gardens that are fully maintained”.

He said he expected more city dwellers to flock to the new Seachange Village Emerald Lakes as construction on its five-star Country Club neared completion. Like the Country Club at Seachange Village Arundel, it will offer a wealth of facilities like a heated pool, craft room, lounges, dining areas and more.

“At Seachange, our residents are discovering that they have more time to nourish their minds, bodies and souls and love the way they live.”

More Information
For a guided tour of the country club or to register for a FREE morning tea with Seachange residents, visit the Welcome Centre at 299 Napper Road Arundel or phone toll free 1800 652 797.

 As seen in The Retiree magazine, August 2015.

Seachange Arundel Takes Home Master Builders Award

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Multi-award winning Gold Coast lifestyle resort, Seachange Arundel has secured its place amongst Queensland’s most successful active over 50s communities after winning the 2015 Master Builders Award.

The Pradella Property Ventures’ community was voted the best Lifestyle Accommodation for Seniors  by an independent committee, which recognises excellence in the Queensland building and construction industry.

Seachange has now achieved awards in the seniors community category from each of the major Queensland building organisations.

Designed with the philosophy to nourish the mind, body and soul, Seachange offers residents a variety of architecturally designed homes with unrivalled amenities through the community’s 5-star country club, and direct access to the neighbouring Coombabah Lakelands Conservation Area.

Seachange Project Director Phil Goodman said the community showcased the developer’s commitment to create a benchmark over 50s lifestyle resort that allows its residents to enjoy a vibrant, active lifestyle –in essence to  “love the way they live”.

“We are extremely proud of what we have delivered at Seachange. We have successfully developed a quality product offering for the growing baby boomers demographic.”

Mr Goodman said the award is a great achievement for the community, which continues to grow, with the final stages now selling.

“We are catering to an increasing segment of Australia’s population who demand very specific housing, so recognition from Master Builders has provided a strong endorsement of the vision we set out to achieve,” he stated.

For a guided tour of the country club or to register for a FREE morning tea with Seachange residents, visit the Welcome Centre at 299 Napper Road Arundel.

Call 1800 652 797 or visit www.seachangegoldcoast.com.au for more information.

Walking Their Worries Away

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Walking their worries away, residents flock to the Seachange walking group

Queensland’s most awarded over 50s lifestyle resort Seachange Village Arundel is proving to be a popular spot for residents to catch up on their fitness.

If you happen to find yourself in the inner Gold Coast suburb of Arundel early one morning, don’t be surprised if you see a large group of seniors walking speedily through the neighbourhood.

Walking group co-ordinators and keen walkers like Brian and Di Dawson state residents are flocking to the popular Seachange Walking Group eager to work up a sweat and socialise.

While Brian and Di are moving into their ‘third age of life’ they’re certainly not slowing down when it comes to keeping active.

“This is our respite, you might say,” said Mr Dawson who tries to do a lap of the surrounding community each morning.

“Seachange’s location really promotes an active lifestyle,” he said.

“It makes it easy when you’re surrounded by spectacular parks and I can call the Gold Coast’s Coombabah Wetland my backyard.”

As proprietors of the local Arundel shopping centre arrive to open up – members of the group have a stretch to warm-down from the walk, the all-important catch up over coffee begins, which Mr Dawson says is a key attraction of the group.

Seachange Project Director Mr Phil Goodman said he was struck by the enthusiasm of residents to maintain such an active lifestyle.

“It’s great for us here at Seachange to be around a group of older people who are seeking to invigorate their minds, bodies and souls through regular exercise,” he said.

Located in the heart of the Gold Coast, Seachange Village Arundel sets a new benchmark in over 50s living, providing a location and lifestyle for residents to feel energised and refreshed.

The community is rich in amenities, with a highlight being the 5-star Country Club built in mind for residents who want to get the most out of life. Facilities include an indoor heated pool, tennis courts, gym, cinema and a village green.

The community has easy access to the bus and rail system, and is within a short drive to the best of the Gold Coast’s beaches, golf courses, major shopping centres and the M1.

For a guided tour of the country club or to register for a complimentary morning tea, visit the Welcome Centre at 299 Napper Road Arundel to learn how you can love the way you live.

As seen in the Gold Coast Tweed Seniors July 2015.