Aged care leadership needs to speak up. Media needs to hear balancing voices
The words of the Aged Care Commissioners and Scott Morrison go a long way in the setting the picture in…
Browsing: Opinion
Message to retirement village and aged care leaders: “opportunity abounds” …. but beware, “They’re not gonna take it anymore!”
Our job at DCM Media is to be an observer, reporter and commentator on the retirement village and aged care…
Residential (and retirement village) sales described as ‘fragile’ post-election
The jump in residential sales after the election was short-lived – what they call “a dead cat bounce”. Stockland provided…
The Big Four Months of the Royal Commission – subscribe now to understand the Commissioners – and the Counsels Assisting
In summary, we are impressed. The Commissioners, and particularly the eight Counsels Assisting, have grasped the major challenges and system…
ANMF launches thinly veiled attack on Ansell Strategic’s Royal Commission submission on staffing ratios research
The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation (ANMF) issued the press release yesterday – containing a couple of errors in the…
The ultimate aged care refurbishment challenge – Paynter Dixon didn’t sleep!
Supplier Spotlight Imagine you had to refurbish a section of one level of an operating hospital as a 20 bed…
This Friday (2 May) the Royal Commission returns… and so does our daily snapshot by Lauren Broomham: The Daily COMMISSION. Subscribe now.
This week, both Commissioners (pictured) will for the first time attend a public hearing in Maidstone, West Melbourne. From next…
LEADERS SUMMIT attendance passes 600 – a ‘sell out’
A quick thanks to the 600+ executives who took time out for ‘new thinking’ at our LEADERS SUMMIT last Thursday…
If the pendant was yesterday’s technology, what is tomorrow’s – ask eevi
Every village operator (and family member) knows that people do not like wearing an alarm pendant – in fact American…
Is the departure of Sakkara the end of a painful era for the residents and the retirement village sector?
It’s a conundrum. The Landings is a fabulous retirement village. (In fact, I supported my mother-in-law becoming a resident). However,…