In a first for the country, Kochi-based Graceland Foundation is launching a Retirement Community, redefining the way senior citizens live, once they retire after fulfilling their professional, personal and family responsibilities. Graceland is a unique concept of community living for people who are aged above 55 years.
Going beyond the current concept of ‘bed, bath and 3 meals per day’, Graceland provides a great ambience, luxurious living comforts, the company of like-minded people to do away with loneliness, so that senior citizens can pursue the kind of comfortable life that they’re used to. Graceland is promoted by a group of professionals from the medical profession, engineering, and healthcare with global exposure, who have a commitment to enhance the quality of living, especially for senior citizens. The promoters stated that there is a latent need for retirement communities, as against old-age homes, where senior citizens can spend their sunset years in comfort and peace even as their children pursue challenging careers in different parts of the world.
The retirement community project is coming up at Mulanthuruthy in Ernakulam district, on about 4 acres of scenic land. Besides the villa-type two room units, the facility will have a 14,000-sq ft club area, dining room, visitors’ lounge and coffee shop, centralised kitchen, spacious game room, hall, well-stocked library and reading room, mini cinema theatre, ayurvedic treatment centre, convenience store, yoga, meditation and prayer rooms, full-fledged in-house clinic with medical and paramedical staff, 24 hour nursing support, ambulance facility, and travel desk and the like. The 80 villa-type units will have one spacious bedroom and an equally spacious living room, porch, balcony, large bathrooms, kitchenette. The villas are fully furnished. Accommodation facility for the visiting close relatives is also available. More details are available in the website - www.gracelandfoundation.com.