VIC: $11million club opened at Cranbourne retirement village

Jun 14 2010 Updated July 4, 2023

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Blue Hills Rise retirement village has opened its $11 million club. Currently in stage three of the building process, Blue Hills Rise is being developed as a sister village for nearby Blue Hills Residences. More than 50 residents already live at Blue Hills Rise which will eventually consist of 273 units and 16 apartments.

Pocock wins fight for Senate inquiry into home care delays and aged care reform

ACT Independent Senator David Pocock’s push for a Senate Inquiry into aged care reform delays and the withholding of Home Care Packages secured backing from the Coalition, Greens, and Independents yesterday (Monday 28 July), ensuring the inquiry will proceed.

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Caroline Egan

29 Jul 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

RSL Care SA buys Hallmont Estate’s two retirement villages in Mount Gambier, SA

The Not For Profit organisation, which operates retirement living, social housing and residential care in South Australia, has bought Woodlands Grove and Hallmont Estate Mount Gambier, in the second most populous city in the state, which lies 450km...

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Ian Horswill

22 Jul 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Regis Aged Care buys Rockpool’s four aged care homes for $225,000 per bed

Regis has acquired Rockpool’s four aged care homes boosting its homes to 72. Regis’ MD and CEO Dr Linda Mellors said, “This acquisition aligns with our strategy to broaden our residential aged care footprint”, while Rockpool CEO Melissa Argent said she is proud of what Rockpool has created.

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Caroline Egan

24 Jul 2025

Legal Issues

Lifestyle Communities CEO Henry Ruiz: VCAT ruling will have “implications for the sector”

On 20 July, the publication gave Lifestyle Communities CEO Henry Ruiz, who only took on the role in March, permission to write a simialr length article rebutting all of the claims in Lloyd’s article, headlined “Lifestyle Communities’ fees show...

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Ian Horswill

21 Jul 2025

Videri, formerly Group Homes Australia, building 24th home for people living with dementia as two more acquired

Founded in 2012 by Tamar Krebs, the innovative private model of care for people living with dementia, has homes in local communities, with six to 10 bedrooms, offering 24/7 dementia care, including Flexible Respite, long-term, end-of-life and...

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Community Home Australia opens supported living opposite Westmead Hospital in Sydney’s West

Dementia care and disability support provider Community Home Australia has opened ‘Kora House’, a four-storey, 18-studio supported living facility across the road from Westmead Hospital, with 150 applications so far.

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Juniper CEO Russell Bricknell warns WA Budget fails to meet aged care crisis head-on

The head of one of Western Australia’s biggest Not for Profit aged care providers welcomed the WA Budget but in the booming state economy, said the level of investment in aged care feels “incremental, not transformational”. “The reality on the...

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500 patients waiting: Gold Coast hospital to open new dementia units

Gold Coast Health is preparing to open a 12-bed Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) Unit and 10-bed Acute Cognitive Unit (ACU) at Gold Coast University Hospital in September.

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Caroline Egan

18 Jun 2025