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RETIREMENT HOUSING EXPLANATIONS to help you find your perfect retirement property.
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	Capital Asset	The value of your property. Clearly the longer the lease the more your capital is protected. For example once a lease gets less than sixty years its value tails off quite considerably. Many retirement housing schemes were built in the 1980s and sold on 99 year leases. Today some of these schemes have leases of less than eighty years left so they are a reducing asset..
	Car Parking	Usually provided within a development but quite often can be limited especially with flatted schemes. Some properties will have single garages, others car ports and some unallocated spaces. Schemes with unallocated spaces operate very much on a first come first served basis applying to visitors as well. .
	Care and Support	Provided by voluntary organisations, health authorities and local councils. Services can include carers to help with domestic tasks, meals on wheels, community nursing services, help with shopping or transport to personal care services. Private care agencies are able to offer daily or longer term nursing care..
	Care Homes	Similar in many ways to residential homes but often larger and increasingly purpose-built with self-contained accommodation..
	Caretaker	Usually another word for the scheme manager who is sometimes called a house manager or estate secretary..
	CCTV	Tends to be provided on new schemes in built-up areas..
	Centre for Sheltered Housing Studies	Offers courses and support services for professionals working in Sheltered Housing..
	Cirrus Communication Systems	Provides telecommunication and security solutions, products and services to the Retirement Housing industry. http://www.cirruscom.co.uk .
	Citizens' Advice Bureau	A source of information from welfare benefits and legal rights to local community services..
	Coffee Mornings	Often held in communal lounges when residents get together for informal chats..
	Cognatum Estates	One of the premier management companies of retirement housing. .
	Common Parts	Those areas in a develpment or block of flats which are shared such as gardens, garage forecourts, paths; lifts, entrance lobbies, staircases elat.
	Communal Facilities	The 'big five': Usually means with a scheme manager mostly resident but increasingly visiting and emergency alarm system, communal gardens, communal lounge, guest room and laundry..
	Community Alarms	Alarm systems connecting to twenty-four hour monitoring centres with a pendant which summons help even when the owner is away from the telephone..
	Community Legal Service Funding	Financial assistance to those over 70 in making a will and who meet certain financial criteria. Contact Social Services..
	Companionship	Most retirement housing schemes develop their own levels of campanionship / community spirit and involvement as you would expect from like minded neighbours..
	Complaints Procedure	Should be clearly set out and documented by the management organisation..
	Concessionary Travel	From bus companies to trains. Contact companies direct..
	Concessionary TV Licence	If a scheme is managed by a housing association and there is a resident scheme manager, residents may be eligible for a concessionary TV Licence..
	Condensation	Often found in the roofs of new houses so don't store hats and clothes for eighteen months or so there. Also affects windows in well-insulated retirement homes so check to see there is adequate ventilation..
	Contents Insurance	Normally payable by the owner/occupier/lessee..
	Council Tax	Normally payable by the owner/lessee..
	Covenants	Contained in a lease between lessor and lessee. You agree to do or not do something and this can be enforced in a court of law. Covenants may be restrictive,eg not to keep pets on a development..
	Crystal Care	Crystal Care is operated by RLHA, a charitable housing association founded in 1971. The company supplies nursing and care services in the Sussex and Surrey areas and offers elderly or disabled people the help they need to continue living independently. http://www.crystalcare.org.uk .

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