QLD council buries cemetery idea
The ageing population of Magnetic Island in QLD won’t be getting a new cemetery. A quarter of the island’s residents…
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Chinese Home Care AI business model on target for 30M users
Whilst Australia lags in the use of AI in the aged care sector, Chinese company Lanchuang Network Technology Corp has launched…
Berkeley Living Retirement Village returns again to haunt the Melbourne media
The abandoned village has been described by The Herald Sun recently as a ‘cesspool for crime’. It’s hard to believe…
Fancy owning a piece of Australian Grand Prix history.
A left field idea. The elderly owner of the site of the Port Wakefield Grand Prix circuit is set to…
Fake aged care nursing director fined $60,000
A Victorian man who conned his way into becoming the Director of Nursing in an aged care facility by falsely…
Lendlease officially launches big $400M Chinese retirement village in Shanghai
Four years after we first reported Lendlease moving into the Chinese market, Tony Lombardo, CEO Asia, has announced that its…
Chaos for residents, staff and operator as Gold Coast retirement village suddenly closes
More than 70 residents at the Earle Haven Retirement Village in Nerang (13 kilometres west of the CBD), were forced…
Proactive SA town creates its own aged care workforce through scholarships and employment
The regional town of Loxton (256 kilometres west of Adelaide) with a population of just 4,500 is offering free aged…
INXS manager Chris Murphy planning Ballina (NSW) retirement village
The 64-year-old rock’n’roll veteran (pictured above) has put forward a plan to Ballina Shire Council (35 kilometres south of Byron…
94-year-old retirement village resident robbed by stranger who “pretended” to lose her child
The woman was robbed at Luthern Services’ Immanuel Gardens’ Retirement Village on the Sunshine Coast after opening the door to…