Issue 58

Editorial: Can seniors’ housing provide the key to solving the ‘isolation’ of home care?

Around the world – including Australia – countries are shifting their focus to care in the home as a solution to aged care workforce shortages and funding shortfalls.

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Opinion: Is home care the cruel option?

The Baby Boomers don’t want to live in residential aged care – but home care alone is not the panacea During the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, it was noted that Australia only had two remaining institutions: prisons and...

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Where does that person go? A blunt lesson from New Zealand

New Zealand is the canary in the coal mine. Decades of government aged care underfunding is seeing old-style aged care beds closing with capacity slack being filled by the retirement village sector. But now village operators are withdrawing from loss-making residential care services, asking the question, where does that person with low means go?

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Australia 0, the Netherlands 1

Will the Dutch strategy to invest in seniors housing and home care to solve its aged care challenges prove to be a winner? 3.3% of the Dutch population aged over 65 lives in residential aged care compared to 4.3% of Australia’s over-65 population...

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The Government claims it is listening – seniors’ housing advocates need to be heard

The retirement living sector is also facing further competition from new housing options such as Build to Rent, which have also received significant Government incentives

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DCM Group’s Plan B campaign for increased consumer contributions backed by aged care sector

The Aged Care Financial Sustainability Summit was held in June, where the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) brought together 43 organisations representing consumers, aged care providers, unions, experts, and Government bodies to...

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Your challenge: Establish trust; attract quality staff

The BaptistCare NSW & ACT board and relatively new CEO, Charles Moore, are aggressive for growth, aware of the near future consolidation sweeping the sector. They are also aggressive on delivering their mission of...

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Assisted living comes of age (again)

Reports of the death of serviced apartments are premature: assisted living is finding new life as a self-funded model driven by Baby Boomers’ desire to avoid residential aged care. Assisted living, serviced apartments, care in the village…...

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$1 billion sale of Serenitas will be a record for the land lease sector

Serenitas, the land lease joint venture between private equity firm Tasman Capital Partners and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC, is close to finalising a sale of its portfolio for around $1 billion. Serenitas has 28 land lease communities...

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Ian Horswill

02 Aug 2023