Ageing

Anglicare Southern Queensland open first specialist dementia care units on Gold Coast

The Australian Government Department of halth, Disability and Ageing has given $2.6 million to the has been spent unit at the Abri Residential Aged Care Home in Southport. The SDCP unit will be delivered through funding from the Commonwealth...

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Ian Horswill

12 Jun 2025

Aged Care

Rethinking healthcare at home: why Amplar Health is building the future for ageing Australians

Australia’s population is ageing, hospitals are under pressure, and traditional care models are falling short. Amplar Health, led by CEO Robert Read (pictured above), is reimagining healthcare with hospital-level services delivered at home...

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Lauren Broomham

12 Jun 2025

Government Policy

NSW elective surgery wait times hit worst levels since COVID-19

There were 100,678 patients on the waiting list for elective surgery in NSW public hospitals at the end of March 2025, up 7.3% on the same time last year, and just 346 patients short of the 101,024 peak recorded at the height of the COVID-19...

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Caroline Egan

12 Jun 2025

Health

SATURDAY 100th issue reimagines care: Can your home be the new hospital?

With aged care under strain and hospitals stretched thin, Amplar Health is leading a quiet but powerful revolution: delivering hospital-level care at home.

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Lauren Broomham

05 Jun 2025

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

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

Ageing

Retirement by Moran provides empty Northern Beaches RAC to women in need – offers guidance to others on how

The private operator is facing at least two years to redevelop its 90 bed RAC. It has worked out how to provide it as accommodation to women in need at no cost. An initiative led by Sally Taylor, Managing Director of Retirement by Moran, they bought...

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Ian Horswill

20 Aug 2024

Ageing

SATURDAY subscription magazine: Phil Usher grows from zero to $600M in private aged care with Odyssey Lifestyle Care Communities

The Weekly SOURCE on Tuesday, 6 August, revealed the sector innovator’s fourth private aged care community, operated under the Retirement Villages Act. Now Phil has given an exclusive interview to DCM Group editor Lauren Broomham where he reveals...

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Ian Horswill

19 Aug 2024

Ageing

96.4% of Anglicare Sydney’s Woolooware Shores Village residents want ‘full care’ offered in pilot

The promise of an on-site care team including nursing and care staff, allied health services, available 24/7, has captured the imagination of residents and their families. Cassandra Mathews, Chief Executive of Anglicare Sydney’s Seniors Living...

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Ian Horswill

02 Jul 2024

Sector Moves & People

Resident abuse awareness in retirement living not enough: Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM

The Retirement Living Council has been put on notice it must introduce new nationwide strategies to better identify and respond to resident abuse. The Age Discrimination Commissioner, Robert Fitzgerald AM, who spoke at the National Retirement Living...

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Ian Horswill

01 Jul 2024

Living with Dementia

De-escalate behaviour emergencies with Dementia Australia’s new VR training

Dementia Australia has launched a virtual reality (VR) training program aimed at de-escalating behavioural emergency situations involving people living with dementia in care settings. The training, titled ‘D-Esc’, uses an immersive simulation for...

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Caroline Egan

13 Jun 2024

Government Policy

NSW Govt to spend millions trying to put elderly into aged care

The NSW Government has announced a $480.7 million package aimed at avoiding 290,000 hospital emergency department (ED) visits every year, including measures that improve the flow of patients through the hospital system, including into residential aged care.

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Caroline Egan

13 Jun 2024

Aged Care

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner & CMO write to aged care board Chairs of Covid, flu surge

The Federal Government’s Care Finder program, which has cost nearly $234 million between 2022-23 and 2024-25, has provided support to older Australians, but is being hampered by a lack of service availability to providers

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Caroline Egan

30 May 2024