2025 Year in Review: Community Living
Fourth – and perhaps most significant for the sector – the Retirement Living Council’s bid to operate at true national scale.
Retirement Living
The pioneering quiet achiever: Baldwin Living marks 50 years
What began with solicitor Tony Baldwin’s reformist vision in 1975 has evolved into eight retirement villages, with three in Sydney, two in Victoria, two in Queensland, and Baldwin Living Vaucluse Gardens in Hobart.
Aged Care
Exclusive: Scalabrini Communities moves into South Australia
The acquisition represents more than a 25% increase to its residential care portfolio and a fivefold lift in home care services.
Government Policy
Key land lease operation changes in VIC: Russell Kennedy
Russell Kennedy advised land lease operators to download updated forms from the Consumer Affairs Victoria website.
Opinion
Are retirement villages ready for the future of health and care? No.
What about the vast network of broadacre villages – hundreds of homes spread over large sites, often staffed by a man and a pony?
Aged care wants to supersize – but who will staff it?
While capital is ready, the workforce isn’t. Providers say applications are high, yet finding quality carers is harder than ever.
Operators are dreaming with retirement village growth strategies
The Ansell Strategic chart above sums up what Ansell’s clients are telling them they intend to build. Assisted living and private aged care homes for an additional 350,000 people over ten years. Tell ‘em they’re dreaming.
Is aged care still “hot” enough to stay on the political boil?
Most Australians only collide with the aged care system when Mum breaks a hip or Dad suddenly needs care – and they discover there are no Packages, no beds and no obvious way in.
News & Headlines
ASQA ramps up crackdown on care training providers
ASQA cancelled Kingsway’s registration on 9 July and says the investigation identified “potential safety risks” – including to some of the most vulnerable members of the community – requiring “urgent action”.
Illawarra aged care home evacuated due to fire
“There was a fire in a ceiling that was contained by the sprinkler system.”
From co-contributions to continuum: Tom Symondson on where aged care reform must go next
Aged care’s next test won’t be passing legislation – it will be tracking what actually happens when the new rules collide with real lives. Tom Symondson, CEO of peak body Ageing Australia, says the design intent behind Support at Home is...
AlayaCare acquires Nightingale Software to deepen its aged care footprint in ANZ
Aged, home and community care platform AlayaCare has acquired Nightingale Software, strengthening its position across Australia and New Zealand’s aged care, home care and disability sectors.
