Topic - Aged Care

ONLY IN SATURDAY: Chris Baynes’ explosive column

Feb 22 2023 Updated May 3, 2023

Section Editor

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“Consolidation (of the aged care sector) is inevitable and the last one standing will be big,” DCM Group CEO Chris Baynes writes in the latest SATURDAY digital magazine, as Bolton Clarke becomes the Not for Profit’s largest RAC provider. The cover story is BaptistCare CEO Charles Moore on what being a “Profit for Purpose organisation” really means.

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Exclusive: Aveo to sell off its retirement villages in South Australia and Tasmania

Tony Randello, CEO of the nation’s leading retirement village provider, said the impending sale of its 16 retirement villages in South Australia and Tasmania “aligns with Aveo’s regular strategic review of opportunities across its portfolio”. The...

Ian Horswill

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Acquisitions

Breaking news: For Purpose Investment Partners’ aged care platform buys Graeme Croft’s Signature Care

For Purpose Aged Care Australia (FPACA), the aged care provider established by social impact investment vehicle For Purpose Investment Partners (FPIP), is moving forward on its vision of reaching 5,000 beds, acquiring 14 aged care homes – eight on...

Lauren Broomham

24 Apr 2024

Opinion

576 village sellers are waking up: buyers are knocking on doors as the demand and supply penny drops on seniors accommodation

With Aveo selling 16 villages and RetireAustralia, with 29 villages, now also up for full sale (again), we hear a lot about these big players in seniors accommodation, but little about the little guys – and there are a lot of them. In fact we have...

Chris Baynes

22 Apr 2024

Development

Seniors housing faces becoming “the roadkill of the NSW planning system”

Two major policies recently exhibited by the NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure (DPHI) could have major implications on seniors housing, said Ethos Urban Director Daniel West. The Weekly SOURCE stated last Tuesday that Daniel...

Ian Horswill

16 Apr 2024

RADs are here to stay: Ansell Strategic Board Pack

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Caroline Egan

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Government Policy

Low vaccination rates may have impacted death rates in residential aged care

A lack of vaccination data The vaccination campaign began on 22 February 2021, and was criticised for being rolled out too late. Vaccinations in residential aged care were also criticised for being too slow. When the Omicron outbreak began in...

Caroline Egan

24 Apr 2024

Government Policy

Aged Care Minister Mark Butler’s big change for residential aged care

The Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler announced during the week that pharmacists will be funded by the Government to go into residential aged care homes and deliver vaccines to residents for free, a measure that was previously only...

Caroline Egan

24 Apr 2024

Government Policy

Ageing population sees hospitals “at breaking point” and it is going to get worse: AMA

Emergency wait times are the longest in a decade and surgery wait times are at their longest ever, according to the 2024 Public Hospital Report Card, an annual report that uses data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare to pinpoint...

Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2024