Canada’s Brookfield looking at age care and retirement in Australia and Asia
With $US 330B in assets under management, the Canadian investor and operator has told the Australian Financial Review that it…
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37% of aged care workers in Australia from overseas
New research from the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre has revealed an increase of more than 20,000 overseas-born frontline workers…
Canada: families hiring own staff to guard aged care home residents
A growing number of families in the capital Ottawa – population 1.25 million – are hiring staff to protect their…
NZ retirement operators hit by soft housing market too
Australia is not alone in the housing downturn; New Zealand, and particularly Auckland is soft as well. The three largest…
China wants our aged care training, says Australian Trade and Investment Commission
Austrade says China currently has one million people employed in the aged care sector but requires 10 million within two…
Ryman named NZ’s biggest residential builder – retirement villages take four of top 12 spots
The country’s largest village operator built 39 projects in some stage of development worth NZ$899.9 million – an average value…
Germany relaxes immigration rules for first time to attract foreign workers – for six months
With unemployment at a record low, the German Government has proposed easing immigration laws to allow jobseekers from outside the…
Singapore retirement village takes out world’s best building of the year
Kampung Admiralty has been named Building of the Year 2018 award at the World Architecture Festival, out of 535 projects…
NZ: Arvida plans first major apartment project in Christchurch – no car park
The Park Lane Apartments in Addington is a “blueprint” for how the village operator wants to develop according to chief…
Ireland to phase out aged care homes in next 20 years and replace with retirement villages
Shades of ECH in Adelaide, who have over 100 ‘villages’ or cluster homes. Under the new Irish model, small housing…