Land Lease versus Retirement Villages – who is winning the development race and why?
Last week I was asking if the retirement village sector had lost its mojo, with just 2,290 new village homes…
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Future aged care model: LDK sells 19 ACT care support homes in September (average age 82)
Aged care and retirement living operators should be investigating this model. Paul Browne’s innovative LDK Living (which stands for ‘love,…
Seven compelling arguments for reimagined aged care funding, by the Royal Commission’s favourite witness – Natasha Chadwick
Natasha Chadwick has the rungs on the innovation and enterprise board – the only Royal Commission witness across 20 months…
The Big 4 banks hold $9B exposure to the ‘$30B house of (RAD) cards’ – the problem for all operators
Opinion by Chris Baynes CEO, DCM Group The aged care sector has many problems. One of the biggest however is…
Village sales and accepting the future, or creating it
At DCM, we have around 1,100 clients, split 400 B2B (businesses that sell to other businesses) and 700 B2C (businesses…
37% increase in potential retirement village customers year on year. Why? And will it translate into sales?
Check out the two graphs above. They are our Google Analytics results on our educational and search directory villages.com.au. For the…
Envigor CEO Nick Loudon speaks up on Government contempt
Few sector leaders are standing up and speaking about the increasingly dire service challenges operators face and the disrespect Government…
Number of residential care services and homes to drop within three to four years: Benetas’ Sandra Hills OAM
Last week, our Editor Lauren Broomham spoke to the CEO of the Victorian-based aged care, home care and retirement living provider for The Daily…
Not the time to be taking the aged care foot off the COVID-19 brake
Pressure is on to ease the social isolation restrictions, but this photograph from last Saturday – the reception area of…
Aged care in Australia: now respected – but now broke
The day has arrived where the aged care sector is now respected for the work it does. Indeed, the aged…