Topic - Aged Care

A Current Affair returns to ‘aged care horrors’

Mar 26 2018 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Channel Nine’s A Current Affair is again putting the spotlight on aged care with a report on a Queensland aged care home featuring two anonymous nurses.

They say the facility is “gaming” its funding applications to get more funding from the Federal Government.

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Pocock wins fight for Senate inquiry into home care delays and aged care reform

ACT Independent Senator David Pocock’s push for a Senate Inquiry into aged care reform delays and the withholding of Home Care Packages secured backing from the Coalition, Greens, and Independents yesterday (Monday 28 July), ensuring the inquiry will proceed.

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Caroline Egan

29 Jul 2025

Community Living

Mergers & Acquisitions

RetireAustralia acquired by Invesco Real Estate for $845M

The global real estate investment management business, which has over US$80 billion in real estate assets under management, has forked out $845 million for the Brisbane-based retirement village operator.

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Ian Horswill

08 Aug 2025

Sector Moves & People

Former IRT CEO Patrick Reid appointed Uniting NSW.ACT Chief Operating Officer

Patrick, who stepped down as CEO of IRT Group in May, is making a quick return to the seniors living sector – this time with a major Not For Profit competitor.

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Ian Horswill

29 Jul 2025

Sector Moves & People

Cameron Taylor handpicks executive team at Sundale as brand gets a refresh

Cameron Taylor, who was appointed CEO of the For Profit Not For Profit Sundale in May last year, has finalised his handpicked, multidisciplinary Executive team to lead the Queensland Sunshine Coast retirement living and aged care organisation into the future.

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Ian Horswill

04 Aug 2025

RetireAustralia acquired by Invesco Real Estate for $845M

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VMCH has development approval for St. Francis on the Park retirement village in Ivanhoe East, Melbourne

VMCH, the for-purpose organisation, has a ministerial planning permit for its newest retirement living precinct the Jackson Clements Burrows Architects-designed St. Francis on the Park, in Ivanhoe East, Melbourne, after more than two years of planning and community engagement.

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In Victoria, retirement villages will have Private Aged Care forced on them. Why?

Join us at one of our Ask The Experts Anything Private Aged Care complimentary breakfasts in September, in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Whether you are in strategy, development, finance, sales and marketing, all will be impacted.

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It’s time for retirement village operators to provide guidance on Voluntary Assisted Dying

Over the past fortnight, the DCM Institute has been holding Professional Development Days across the country. One of the topics we have been discussing, at the request of a handful of retirement village operators, has been VAD

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James Wiltshire

05 Aug 2025