Editorial
ABC and Anne Connolly trolling for ‘bad news’ is ‘contemptible’
Last Friday at 10.29 AM the ABC’s Anne Connolly sent out an email calling on…
Community registers, tea and biscuit drops, partnerships with local restaurants: Lifestyle Communities’ James Kelly on supporting residents during coronavirus – and opportunities
The CEO (pictured), who is also the Chairman of the Residential Land Lease Alliance, has…
The DCM Institute provides Covid-19 tools and resources to Village Managers and Operators
Jodie Prosser, Tania Kelly and Jill Donaldson have created a wide range of tools and…
The Villages app – to find your way around
On a lighter note, the largest village in the world ‘The Villages’ in Florida with 110,000 residents,…
NZ: Ryman gives care staff $2 an hour pay boost
Staff at the NZX-listed provider’s New Zealand retirement villages have been told in an email…
MinterEllison warns QLD Govt that retirement villages can’t protect residents unless urgent laws are passed to increase their powers
MinterEllison partner Robin Lyons (pictured below) says that retirement villages do not have the same powers…
Be gentle with yourself
Firstly, I want to acknowledge the wonderful work village professionals are doing around the country. I…
Keeping connected
This week Rachel Lane, Principal of Aged Care Gurus, shared a great YouTube clip that helped her own daughter…
New COVID-19 tools on DCMI portal
We have been busy building and adapting COVID-19 tools over the past 10 days. From today we…
Super Bowl ads disappointing – except these two
Ever since 1984 when Apple launched the Macintosh with its once only TV commercial (created…
‘Reframing’ for serious marketers – experience one of the world’s best marketing educators at the LEADERS SUMMIT
Dr Peter Wilton is a world leader in customer loyalty and marketing disruption. He leads…
Does emotion sell the village offering, or data? Or both?
While everybody talks about ‘data’ as the tool of the future, retirement villages are about…
MinterEllison warns QLD Govt that retirement villages can’t protect residents unless urgent laws are passed to increase their powers
MinterEllison partner Robin Lyons (pictured below) says that retirement villages do not have the same powers…
Ansell Strategic warns of “imminent” collapse of residential aged care homes – $9 billion in RADs at risk over next 9 months
The advisory firm has researched the international aged care sector experience with COVID-19 and modelled…
Support for NSW & QLD Operators
This week, we have received the following message from Woollam Constructions offering their support during…