Opinion Aveo should set the sales and valuation benchmark for all For Profit and NFP village operators: $385K per ILU contract So Aveo built this demand through rebranding, relaunching and very active promotion on vehicles like our villages. com. au Click here Chris Baynes 6 hours ago
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?... Click here 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... Click here 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. Click here 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. Click here 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... Click here 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... Click here 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... Click here 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’. Click here 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. Click here 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... Click here Chris Baynes 17 Mar 2025
Opinion Australian Unity Group CEO Rohan Mead calls out why all village operators need to focus on a new revenue business model The Financial Review last Wednesday published an exclusive article based on Rohan Mead’s assertion that the Australian health system is about to be swamped. In simple language, currently we average 20,000 ageing Australians turning 80 each year... Click here Chris Baynes 10 Mar 2025
Opinion Are you strategically prepared for the next 5 years given the macro changes rushing towards us? I have been reporting on the retirement living, home care and residential aged care sectors for 20 years. The future has never been as uncertain as today. With the first wave of Baby Boomers turning 80 this year, demand for ageing service will jump... Click here Chris Baynes 18 Feb 2025