The family of the Property Council’s new Retirement Living Council’s Executive Director Daniel Gannon (pictured), are retirement living industry pioneers, builders, developers, managers, operators and innovators.
During his school and university days, Daniel worked as a labourer across several Gannon Lifestyle Communities in South Australia.
Tom Snr and Mavis Gannon founded their family construction business in Adelaide in 1979, while the Gannon family moved into retirement living and completed their first village, Vermont Retirement Estate, South Plympton, in 1989.
Their two sons, Tom and Michael, founded Adelaide-headquartered Gannon Lifestyle Communities and continue to build successful, reputable and desirable seniors’ communities in SA and NSW.
Daniel will begin his role as Retirement Living Council Executive Director this morning, succeeding Ben Myers who served in the role for almost six years before resigning in July.
He has served the past eight years as the Property Council’s South Australian Executive Director.
"The senior living industry has a crucial role in delivering housing choice for Australia’s ageing population, and I look forward to driving our advocacy agenda in the interests of our valued members and the Australian community,” he said on his appointment.
He will have his work cut out as Ben said in his last message to members: “Getting government to listen has been the hard part.”
He told The Weekly Source that as soon as it was mentioned retirement villages were the responsibility of the State and Territories, the eyes of federal politicians glazed over and they lost interest in any conversation.
Ryman HealthCare Australia CEO Cam Holland, in the company’s discussion paper, seeks one regulatory body for both retirement providers and aged care operators.
