Aged Care

SATURDAY: Increased worker utilisation, reduction in payroll processing times – the real-world benefits of integrated technology systems

Jul 26 2023 Updated March 12, 2024

Caroline Egan

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Since Not For Profit home care provider Community Vision invested more than $1 million in their information technology systems, the results speak for themselves.

CEO Yvonne Timson says their integrated IT systems not only deliver efficiencies, but they also deliver real-world benefits to older people.

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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: aged care on a collision course with care minutes

With just 12 months until care minutes are linked with funding, residential aged care providers are facing a lose-lose scenario: lose funding if they understaff but fail to be compensated if they exceed targets, says Shalain Singh, Managing Director and CEO of Arrow Advisory Group.

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Lauren Broomham

17 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Exclusive: Levande buys four new sites for retirement villages

Levande adds four new sites to its $2B growth plan, including major developments in Sydney, Melbourne, and Geelong.

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025

Opinion

Why 20 May is more important to the retirement living sector than Election Day

The Baby Boomer generation is being ignored by the Labor and Liberal-National Coalition parties as the Gen Y and Gen Z become the increasingly dominant generations and this will not change.

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025

Opinion

Aged care isn’t fixed – so why are we not talking about it?

If you tuned into yesterday’s National Press Club debate between Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, and Shadow Minister, Anne Ruston, hoping for a meaningful discussion on aged care – you would have been sorely disappointed.

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Lauren Broomham

24 Apr 2025

Hall & Prior continues aged care expansion with purchase of Perth heritage-listed school

Family-owned Hall & Prior Health & Aged Care Group has acquired the vacant building of the Loreto School in Nedlands, an upmarket suburb of Perth, with plans to develop a health and aged care precinct with community amenity.

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Third.i announces strategic joint venture with Dexus to deliver The Merewether retirement village in Newcastle

The property developer has revealed that it will partner with the Australasian real assets group to deliver the $300 million, 178-unit luxury retirement community at the Merewether Golf Club in Newcastle.

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15 new social homes planned for senior co-housing community in WA’s South West

“Whilst the project does not offer assisted living or nursing facilities, and each member is responsible for themselves, it is common in cohousing communities that if someone is sick, neighbours will help with activities like bringing them meals...

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800 people object to Forestville RSL redevelopment with retirement village units to replace declining gambling income

With the Board looking to the future of less poker machine income and submitting a new clubhouse and 55 village apartments, a petition with 800 member signatures and counting is being submitted to Council as a DA objection to the $77 million...

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Chris Baynes

28 Apr 2025