By town
Retirement Villages · Montana Tuine, Centurion, Montana & Pretoria North
Central Developments estate in Montana Tuine with houses and apartments from about R995,000 and on-site care facilities, on the northern edge of Pretoria.
Retirement Villages · Broadacres, Johannesburg Northern Suburbs
Evergreen life-right village in Broadacres with houses and suites from about R800,000, a lifestyle centre with heated pool and gym, and assisted living for apartment residents.
Retirement Villages · Faerie Glen, Pretoria East
Renaissance retirement village in Faerie Glen with independent and assisted living apartments, close to Menlyn, Netcare Pretoria East and Life Faerie Glen hospital.
Retirement Villages · Featherbrooke, Krugersdorp, Roodepoort, Krugersdorp & the West Rand
493-unit sectional-title estate for over-50s near Krugersdorp with a 30-bed frail care facility, home-based care, dining room, salon, shop and doctor's rooms.
Retirement Villages · Pretoriuspark, Pretoria East
Pretoria East retirement estate in Pretoriuspark with independent and assisted living, on-site healthcare and frail care, near Woodlands Boulevard and Netcare Pretoria East.
Retirement Villages · Garsfontein, Pretoria East
Church-linked Garsfontein community of two centres offering rentals, life rights, frail care and dementia care, with a dining room, library and on-site hairdresser.
Retirement Villages · Sandringham, Johannesburg Northern Suburbs
Auria's 122-apartment continuing-care community on the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington golf course, with serviced apartments, assisted living suites, frail care and dementia care.
Retirement Villages · Bryanston, Johannesburg Northern Suburbs
Auria Senior Living's flagship continuing-care estate in Bryanston: 168 garden villas, serviced apartments and assisted living suites, with frail and dementia care on site.
Retirement Villages · Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Established Bedfordview retirement village with apartments and cottages for independent and supported living, close to Eastgate and Life Bedford Gardens.
Retirement Villages · Edenvale, Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Rand Aid's rental village on 10 hectares, linked to Elphin Lodge by a footbridge, with studio and one-bedroom apartments for over-65s who prefer not to buy a life right.
Retirement Villages · Waterfall City, Midrand, Midrand & Waterfall
Over-50s estate inside Waterfall City with houses and apartments, a frail care facility in Waterfall Manor, a nurse on site at all times and Netcare Waterfall City Hospital next door.
Retirement Villages · Witfield, Boksburg, Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Trans-50's longest-running village, open since 1970 in Boksburg, with flats and single rooms, a care centre, memory care rooms and home care, run by a non-profit.
Frail Care · Witpoortjie, Roodepoort, Roodepoort, Krugersdorp & the West Rand
Roodepoort care home offering both assisted care and 24-hour frail care in Witpoortjie, serving families across the West Rand.
The province
Gauteng has more retirement units than any other province and the most under R2 million, which makes it the easiest place in South Africa to find a village a family can afford. It also has the densest network of private hospitals in the country. Netcare, Mediclinic and Life hospitals sit within fifteen minutes of nearly every suburb from Fourways to Faerie Glen, and that matters more at 85 than any sea view.
The market runs from large non-profit life-right villages in the east of Johannesburg, through church and community homes in Pretoria that take the state pension, to new lifestyle estates in Midrand, Broadacres, North Riding and Waterkloof with frail care on site and prices to match. Most families who stay are staying for a reason: the children and grandchildren live here, the GP is here, and the parent knows the roads.
Our town guides cover Johannesburg's northern suburbs, the east of the city and Modderfontein, Roodepoort and the West Rand, Midrand and Waterfall, Pretoria East, and Centurion and Pretoria North. For costs, read frail care costs in Gauteng and retirement village costs in Gauteng.
Assisted living sits between independent living and frail care. Residents have their own room or small apartment, and the facility provides meals, laundry, housekeeping, medication reminders and staff on call, without 24-hour nursing.
It suits a parent who is mostly independent but should no longer live alone, for example after a fall or a bereavement.
Questions families ask
For hospital access, choice and price, yes. Gauteng has the most retirement units in the country and leads in units under R2 million. The trade-offs are traffic, water and power interruptions in some municipalities, and the absence of a coast. Families who stay usually do so because their children and doctors are here.
The east of the city (Lyndhurst, Edenvale, Modderfontein and Bedfordview) has the largest cluster, led by the Rand Aid villages. The northern suburbs from Bryanston to Fourways and Broadacres have the newer lifestyle estates, and Midrand's Waterfall estates sit between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Published 2025 and 2026 rates run from about R17,900 for a shared room in a small Parktown care home to R26,000 to R30,000 for private rooms and high care at established Johannesburg villages. Non-profit homes in Pretoria charge from about R8,700, and subsidised homes take most of the state pension.
Yes. The City of Johannesburg runs 29 homes and retirement villages with about 2,000 units for pensioners, and the provincial Department of Social Development funds non-profit homes across the province. Apply early: waiting lists in Gauteng are among the longest in the country.
Assisted living gives support with daily life (meals, cleaning, reminders) to people who are still largely independent. Frail care provides 24-hour nursing for people who need hands-on help with bathing, dressing, moving or eating.