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Lookout Way

Oct 26 2023 Updated December 2, 2024

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RLC and StewartBrown lobbying sees retirement village operators’ proposed liquidity ratio cut from 10% to 2%

Daniel Gannon, Executive Director of the Retirement Living Council, said the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s proposal to make residential aged care providers operating independent living units (ILUs) and retirement villages retain 10% of ILU and retirement village refundable amounts as liquid funds from 1 July this year, has been reduced to 2%.

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Aveo’s preferred buyer Scape reveals new senior housing business Living Co

Stephen Gaitanos, the Co-Founder, Managing Director and Group CEO of Scape Australia, the country’s leading residential-to-rent owner and operator, has told Mingtiandi’s Singapore Forum that the group will provide accommodation for seniors.

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Sector Moves & People

ECH Chief Executive Claire Scapinello resigns after three years in role

In a surprise move, Claire has left South Australia’s largest retirement living provider just months after being elected Vice-President of the peak body, the Retirement Living Council, in February.

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Ian Horswill

22 May 2025

Redevelopments

$194M revamp of Uniting Wesley Gardens to deliver continuum of care on Sydney’s Northern Beaches

The existing residential care home will be demolished by the Not for Profit for retirement and independent living apartments, co-located with on-site support services, including a new aged care home. Simon Furness Uniting has considered the future...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Geelong Council backflips on proposal to quit home care after union and community outcry

Victoria’s City of Greater Geelong local council has voted to continue delivering in-home care, after efforts earlier in the year to transfer operations to specialist providers were opposed, but says it will go to the Federal Government to ask for additional funding.

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Average wait time for Home Care Packages blows out to seven months

A medium priority customer waiting for a Level 4 package is waiting on average 13 months to receive the care they have been assessed as needing.

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More than 500 aged care patients in Queensland hospital beds - how many nationally?

Queensland’s Health Minister, Tim Nicholls, has demanded the Federal Government invest more in building aged care beds in the state, saying of the 783 hospital patients waiting for an aged care bed: “This is a Commonwealth responsibility.“

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Aged care bed shortage will ‘bedevil’ hospitals: NSW Health Inquiry

A Special Inquiry into NSW’s public healthcare funding led by Commissioner Richard Beasley has recommended the NSW Government supplies aged care beds in circumstances were bed shortages are impacting hospital operations and care.

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Caroline Egan

29 May 2025