Aged Care

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Liquidity ratios relief: Ageing Australia updates members on consultations

The peak body for aged care providers, Ageing Australia, has written to members informing them about information received from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission about how they can apply proposed new liquidity standards.

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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

Aged Care

Aged care providers on challenges of care minute targets: 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT videos available

A panel of three aged care CEOs, hosted by Managing Director and Founder of Anchor Excellence, Cynthia Payne, shared the advantages - and pitfalls - of being a mid-size provider at the 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT.

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Opinion

Home care hellscape: why the wait list should be the new Minister’s first priority

On paper, Australia’s home care system is expanding. Another 107,000 Home Care Packages are set to be rolled out from 1 July. But for many older Australians, that help will come too late – if it comes at all. As we report in this issue, average...

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Lauren Broomham

22 hours ago

Technology

Exclusive: Anglicare slashes workforce turnover from 30% to 14% with Workday AI platform

Anglicare Sydney is reporting significant gains in recruitment, retention, and workforce efficiency across its aged care operations following the implementation of Workday’s Human Capital Management (HCM) platform.

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Why the new Aged Care Act is a golden opportunity for boards

With weeks to go before the 1 July rollout of the new Aged Care Act and Support at Home program, one message is clear: governance is no longer a back-office function. It’s a frontline enabler of quality, innovation, and trust. The aged care sector...

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Lauren Broomham

23 May 2025

Aged Care

Opal HealthCare’s cheeky marketing campaign inspires uptick in admissions

An Opal HealthCare advertising campaign featuring aged care residents living life to the full in the company of friends has not only sparked conversations about what it means to age well, it has resulted in increased enquiries and admissions in the locations the ads have been shown.

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Caroline Egan

21 hours ago

Aged Care

Juniper CEO Russell Bricknell: two changes must happen now before aged care system collapses

The CEO of the Not For Profit aged care provider said the sector is on the brink of collapse as a new Aged Care Act comes into being on 1 July. Russell said government policy has made it impossible to achieve a 10% return to justify new investment...

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Ian Horswill

22 hours ago

Development

$1M per bed: Victorian Govt completes Rutherglen aged care home

The Victorian Government has completed the $57.1 million construction of a 50-bed aged care home in Rutherglen, located 300km northeast of Melbourne, population 3,000., which equates to $1 million a bed..

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Aged Care

160 aged care providers asked to take over Hunter Shire Council’s Gummun Place Hostel – only one responded

Upper Hunter Shire Council in NSW voted for the remaining 16 residents of Gummun House Hostel in Merriwa, 275km northwest of Sydney, be found alternative accommodation. Of 160 aged care providers contacted in January to submit an expression of interest in taking on the home’s operation, one replied.

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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

Government

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Aged Care

160 aged care providers asked to take over Hunter Shire Council’s Gummun Place Hostel – only one responded

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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

Aged Care

Aged care providers on challenges of care minute targets: 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT videos available

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Development

$1M per bed: Victorian Govt completes Rutherglen aged care home

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Home Care

Average wait time for Home Care Packages blows out to seven months

A medium priority customer waiting for a Level 4 package is waiting on average 13 months to receive the care they have been assessed as needing.

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Caroline Egan

21 hours ago

Aged Care

Aged care bed shortage will ‘bedevil’ hospitals: NSW Health Inquiry

A Special Inquiry into NSW’s public healthcare funding led by Commissioner Richard Beasley has recommended the NSW Government supplies aged care beds in circumstances were bed shortages are impacting hospital operations and care.

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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

Aged Care

More than 500 aged care patients in Queensland hospital beds - how many nationally?

Queensland’s Health Minister, Tim Nicholls, has demanded the Federal Government invest more in building aged care beds in the state, saying of the 783 hospital patients waiting for an aged care bed: “This is a Commonwealth responsibility.“

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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

Government Policy

Liquidity ratios relief: Ageing Australia updates members on consultations

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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

Development

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Development

$1M per bed: Victorian Govt completes Rutherglen aged care home

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Development

First sod turned on $60M Rockpool Hamilton Northshore aged care home in Brisbane

The private aged care operator founded by Bill Summers in 2016 has begun construction on the six-storey, 153-bed aged care home, with the first residents expected to move in early next year.

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Development

Vivacity’s bid to build $28M 254-home land lease community in Maitland, NSW, deferred

Maitland City Council officers had recommended the Sydney-based land lease community developer and operator’s proposal for a manufactured home estate in Farley, which is being redeveloped into a residential suburb of Maitland, be refused. The...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

Adrian Puljich’s Aliria brand has approval for two more land lease sites with 416 homes

Construction will start on the first of two new over-50s communities in Toowoomba, southern Queensland’s Darling downs region, in the second half of 2025, after they received development approval from Toowoomba Regional Council last week. Both are...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

Over 50% of Ryman Healthcare Australia’s final stage at Nellie Melba sold

Six years after its initial opening, Ryman Healthcare Australia is preparing to unveil the final stage of its Nellie Melba Retirement Village in Wheelers Hill, 25km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD – with over 50% of the new apartments already under...

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Lauren Broomham

26 May 2025

Development

NSW Court approves ex-One Nation director’s plan to convert family home into retirement village

A family home bought by David Oldfield for $1.89 million in 2011 can be turned into a $17.5 million 35-home retirement village in Belrose, 19km northeast of Sydney’s CBD, after his appeal to the Land and Environment Court was successful. In February...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

SATURDAY means business: Warning for retirement village operators with small regional aged care homes

Stephen Rooke (pictured top), Principal Consultant with advisory firm G5 Strategic, puts it bluntly about building a new residential aged care home in the 99th issue of SATURDAY magazine, released to subscribers last Friday.

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

295-home Living Gems Harris Crossing land lease community approved by Townsville City Council

The $210 million lifestyle resort, by the Puljich family’s Living Gems brand, will be built on a 13.6ha of land, within Maidment Group’s Harris Crossing community in Bohle Plains, in the city’s fast-growing west. Early works have already started...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

For Purpose Aged Care opens second WA home as national expansion continues

The residential aged care operator has celebrated the latest milestone in its Signature Care development pipeline, officially opening its second aged care home in Western Australia. The new 144-bed Mandurah Community Care facility, located in...

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Lauren Broomham

22 May 2025

Health

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Sector Moves & People

Calvary Health Care announces McKinsey & Co’s Damien Bruce to become National CEO

McKinsey & Company consultant Damien Bruce has been appointed National CEO of Calvary Health Care, the Catholic health, home, and aged care provider, following the retirement of current National CEO Martin Bowles earlier this year.

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Caroline Egan

29 Apr 2025

Opinion

LEADERS SUMMIT 2025: ‘wellness’ and reablement should be key to future strategy for sector

Australia is already struggling to meet growing demand for care and support and this will only worsen with the ageing population - the focus must shift to reaching people before they require hospital-level treatment with much of the responsibility falling on aged care and retirement living operators.

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Lauren Broomham

20 Mar 2025

Home Care Delivery

Five Good Friends - revolutionising homecare: a self-service platform that connects people with the best care and health solutions in their community

Live well at home - Life changing care at home and helping people live engaged and successful lives in the homes & communities they love. All of Five Good Friends’ home service tools are available via our mobile app. NDIS approved

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Group Editor

26 Oct 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Lendlease may have nibble for its 25% stake in village operator Keyton

The builder and developer, which has been under shareholder pressure to sell its remaining 25.1% stake in the retirement village operator for at least three years, is reported to have received a handful of approaches to buy it, according to The Australian.

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Parties interested in buying Keyton’s Western Australian retirement villages in due diligence

The leading retirement village operator’s decision to sell its entire portfolio of 10 retirement villages in Western Australia was made in September last year. “They are still on the market with interested parties doing due diligence. That’s all we can say at this point,“ said Keyton spokesperson.

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Legal & General acquires 75% stake in owner of land lease operator Vantage

Vantage is AVID Property Group’s land lease community brand, which has marked its first year in the burgeoning sector. AVID spent $284.5 million to buy eight Living Gems communities to announce the brand in March last year, adding it had earmarked...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

DevCore unveils plans for 1,200 land lease homes across NSW and QLD

Property developer DevCore has revealed a pipeline of at least 1,200 land lease homes, to be delivered across six future communities in New South Wales and Queensland. Founded by former Rawson Homes executives Peter, Lawrie and Mark Rawson, DevCore...

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Lauren Broomham

19 May 2025

Opinion

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Opinion

Home care hellscape: why the wait list should be the new Minister’s first priority

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Lauren Broomham

22 hours ago

Opinion

Scape - the disruptor that will turn the retirement living sector on its head

“As we think about senior housing, that sector in itself is too fragmented and it needs a bit of leadership from someone to kind of disrupt,” Stephen Gaitanos, co-founder, Managing Director and Group CEO of Scape Australia told Mingtiandi’s...

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Ian Horswill

27 May 2025

Opinion

Fix it or fail: Australia’s health system can’t last another five years

Last week, I was fascinated by the Fin Review’s latest ‘Lunch with the AFR’ interview with Chris Blake, CEO of St Vincent’s Health Australia. His prediction? Australian hospitals, in their current form, have only about five years left to survive – and the aged care sector may face collapse even sooner.

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Lauren Broomham

22 May 2025

Opinion

Why building new retirement living developments is not for the faint hearted

Today’s issue is packed full of development stories and talking to For Profit and Not For Profit executives it is getting harder and harder to make projects viable. Anyone building a retirement living facility today needs 40% to 45% more to make...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Opinion

No, Prime Minister: aged care isn’t ‘fixed’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled his new Cabinet this week – and aged care has been relegated to the outer Ministry. Is this a signal that the Labor Government believes aged care is no longer a problem?

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Lauren Broomham

15 May 2025

Opinion

Why this letter from a resident should be read by all village operators

For the second time in as many months, the retirement village sector faces an uphill battle with a branch of government not understanding or appreciating what the sector offers ageing Australians, or the communities they remain a part of. In March...

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Ian Horswill

13 May 2025

Opinion

Aged care left up the creek without a paddle – will the Government come to the rescue?

With just 36 business days until 1 July, aged care providers are holding their breath. The looming rollout of the new Aged Care Act and the Support at Home program has the sector on edge – and the first item on the re-elected Government’s aged...

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Lauren Broomham

08 May 2025

Opinion

Mirvac now has new land lease homes priced at $580K for Baby Boomers vs $750K+ for new families

Perhaps Mirvac and Stockland will be the channel to this market, given they are slicing off sections of their greenfield developments for Over 50s land lease. For instance, Mirvac has sliced off 200 lots off its Everleigh, Brisbane greenfield

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Chris Baynes

05 May 2025

Opinion

Coalition’s pledge to cut home care wait list to zero is too little, too late

With just days until polling day, aged care has finally entered the political spotlight, with Shadow Minister for Aged Care Anne Ruston pledging a Coalition Government would cut home care wait times to zero, but making no commitment to release more Home Care Packages.

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Lauren Broomham

01 May 2025