Plan T: Transformation - co-located villages can solve hospital ‘bed crisis’ in 16 weeks
Here is our thinking: Australia’s 700 co-located retirement villages will have 6,560 village homes vacated each year, or 126 every week. Why doesn’t the sector turn each vacated home over to a human being currently stuck in hospital?
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Plan T: Transformation - co-located villages can solve hospital ‘bed crisis’ in 16 weeks
Here is our thinking: Australia’s 700 co-located retirement villages will have 6,560 village homes vacated each year, or 126 every week. Why doesn’t the sector turn each vacated home over to a human being currently stuck in hospital?
Australia’s running out of aged care beds – and out of time
Colliers’ new Residential Aged Care Market Report confirms what everyone in the sector has felt in their bones: Australia’s aged care system is on a collision course. The headline figure – 800 new residential places in 2024-25 – was already pitiable. Once Boxwell & Co corrected the Department’s data, the
Cameron McPherson: ‘The new law risks boxing providers into yesterday’s model’
Cameron McPherson, CEO of Medical & Aged Care Group, writes that Australia’s new Aged Care Act funds care delivery on a cost basis rather than on outcomes, rewarding activity over measurable gains in independence, connection and quality of life.
Home care won’t catch up – unless the rules change
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From co-contributions to continuum: Tom Symondson on where aged care reform must go next
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Regis Aged Care buys OC Health's two aged care homes for $350K per bed
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Village sector only stronger 12 months after ABC 7.30's Retirement Rip-Off story: RLC
Retirement Living Council Executive Director Daniel Gannon, who was interrupted 78 times after agreeing to talk to ABC 7.30 reporter Adele Ferguson 12 months ago, said "Rather than retreat, the Retirement Living Council tackled fiction with facts - and trhe industry stood united."
