Leading Conversations: can retirement living operators manage rising care needs?
Retirement living operators are facing growing pressure to rethink care delivery, ageing infrastructure and the role technology will play as residents stay in villages longer with increasingly complex needs.
Sector leaders gathered recently for a DCM Group Leading Conversations lunch in Melbourne presented by Lumin to discuss the future of retirement living and ageing in place, and how operators are preparing for the next wave of demand.
The discussion featured:
- Professor The Hon Greg Hunt;
- Anne McCormack, CEO of mecwacare;
- Nathan Cockerill, CEO of Keyton;
- Michelle Bruggeman, COO of Levande;
- Bronwyn Perry, Executive Director, Strategic Communications & Silverchain Foundation at Silverchain Group; and
- Paul Wilson, Co-Founder and CEO of Lumin.
The discussion was facilitated by James Wiltshire, CEO of DCM Group, alongside DCM Group Founder and Executive Director Chris Baynes.
The aim of the session was to explore how retirement village and aged care operators are preparing for a future where demand for accommodation and care increasingly outstrips workforce supply, while the boundaries between retirement living, home care and residential aged care continue to blur.
