Chris Baynes

Retirement villages overcome loneliness – good news in Loneliness Awareness Week but more to do

Newly published research from the Bolton Clarke Research Institute and Monash University reveals moving to a retirement village halves loneliness within 12 months. As the average stay in retirement living is now nine years, this appears to be great...

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Ian Horswill

12 Aug 2025

Opinion

Across Australia there is a model of aged care where eager customers are lining up at the door to enter

These are retirement villages, not aged care homes, and we call it private aged care. While we have been banging on about this model for several years, we are seeing the early green shoots of a new, significant sector, being driven by the new...

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Chris Baynes

24 Jul 2025

Opinion

Are LDK, Odyssey and Anglicare the only visionaries in the retirement living sector?

Are you an executive in the retirement living sector? If yes, I strongly urge you to join our ‘Ask a visionary anything’ breakfasts in September (Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane). We are a media group and get to speak to a wide range of...

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Chris Baynes

22 Jul 2025

Chris Baynes

Aveo transformation masterclass: turning $1.27B into $3.85B in 55 months

Today’s confirmation of the sale of Aveo is dated 26 June 2025. Brookfield took the keys to Aveo in November 2019, or four years and seven months ago. On first blush they made $2.58 billion profit in those 55 months, or did they make a lot more?...

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Chris Baynes

26 Jun 2025

Opinion

It took a 28-year-old to reboot the retirement living sector – at speed

Adrian Puljich was 28 years of age when he conceived GemLife and then convinced Singapore diversified investment business Thakral Corporation to commit 50% of funds to create the business. Nine years later it is valued at $1.58 billion. How did he...

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Chris Baynes

16 Jun 2025

Aged Care

Plan T: urgent ‘transformation’ needed to future-proof aged care for residents and operators

With aged care home occupancy over 95%, 85,000-plus on home care wait lists, and thousands stuck in hospitals, Australia’s aged care system is already operating beyond capacity – and facing a demographic tidal wave.

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Chris Baynes

12 Jun 2025

Chris Baynes

Plan T: Transformation – an action plan for positive change in the aged care system is required

The aged care system is bogged down from years of rules and regulations piling on top of each other to the point where it is now grossly inefficient and failing to deliver optimum care equally across the country.

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Chris Baynes

12 Jun 2025

Opinion

Will AI be the workforce saviour for delivering home care into retirement villages?

It is our 100th edition, and we are looking forward at what is known to be coming and what the leading thinkers say is required across retirement living, home care and residential care to deliver best client outcomes, a positive bottom line and...

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Chris Baynes

02 Jun 2025

Opinion

Scape moving to acquire Aveo is good news – here is why

It was revealed in the Financial Review this week that Australian student accommodation giant Scape is now the exclusive bidder to buy Aveo, for an indicated $3.5B. They will bring fresh thinking to the retirement village sector. Take a step back...

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Chris Baynes

15 Apr 2025

Opinion

Small is good – and faster in retirement living, but what does that say about the future?

Today we cover Mark Bindon and Franco DePasquale announcing their re-entry to the retirement village sector with three separate village projects of around just 25 homes each. Meanwhile Adrian Puljich announced at the LEADERS SUMMIT his new Aliri...

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Chris Baynes

01 Apr 2025

Chris Baynes

Structural policy, productivity and strategic imperatives to support ageing Australians missing at one minute to midnight

We get it; it’s an election budget, and as Paul Keating used to say, ‘if you are not in power, you have no power’.

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Chris Baynes

26 Mar 2025

Opinion

LEADERS SUMMIT 2025: Sector must take the lead on ageing strategy, warns Chris Baynes

The Government is not equipped to deliver a clear-cut plan to address the doubling of demand over the fixed supply of home care and residential aged care – and the sector will need to fill this leadership gap, the DCM Group CEO has advised over 570 executives at the 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT.

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Lauren Broomham

20 Mar 2025

Opinion

Village operators relying on external Home Care take note: 105 days to new regs

Home Care is about to change significantly. You should know one reason but you are unlikely to know the second. Home Care changes to a new system titled Support at Home (S@H) on 1 July, just 105 days from now, or 71 working days. A lot of the...

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Chris Baynes

17 Mar 2025