Sector Moves & People

Aged care training provider Altura Learning appoints Paul Goudie CEO

Aged care training provider Altura Learning, which is owned by Australia’s largest independent Not For Profit aged care provider, Bolton Clarke, had appointed education and technology expert Paul Goudie as its new CEO, effective 5 April 2024. Paul...

Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2024

Sector Moves & People

Southern Cross Care Tasmania to sell aged care home shut in 2021

The 1 hectare site of former Mary’s Grange Aged Care Facility, in Taroona, 7km from the centre of Hobart, which closed in 2021, is to be sold by Southern Cross Care Tasmania, through agents Knight Frank.

Caroline Egan

18 Apr 2024

Sector Moves & People

Cushman & Wakefield launch new Alternatives platform for retirement investment

David Curtis (Capital Markets) and David Bruce-Clarke (Valuations) have been appointed Co-Heads of Alternatives for Australia and New Zealand by the global commercial real estate services operator. Noral Wild, Cushman & Wakefield’s International...

Ian Horswill

15 Apr 2024

Sector Moves & People

Only in SATURDAY: DCM Executive Retirement is more than simply placing an ad

James Teodoro, Executive Recruiter at DCM Executive Recruitment, which is an agency that specialises in talent acquisition for retirement village owners and operators, provides two examples illustrating why the community living sector should use DCM...

Ian Horswill

16 Apr 2024

Sector Moves & People

Senior Development Manager Mark McMahon appointed Acting CEO of Sundale

Peter Campbell has been filling as Interim CEO after Helen’s departure

Ian Horswill

15 Apr 2024

Sector Moves & People

Catholic Healthcare appoint Steven Rubic to Board of Directors

The former Chief Executive of Healthscope, I-MED Radiology Network, St Vincent’s & Mater Health Sydney and St Vincent’s Private Hospital has been appointed to the board of the leading faith-based retirement living and aged care operator...

Ian Horswill

15 Apr 2024

Sector Moves/People

Only in SATURDAY WORKFORCE ISSUE: the innovative regional aged care CEO

Veronica Jamison, Chief Executive Officer at Shepparton Retirement Villages, is facing severe workforce shortages like many regional residential aged care operators. She has had to close one facility to try and satisfy the mandatory care guidelines...

Ian Horswill

11 Apr 2024

Technology

Is this the future of aged care? Tanunda Lutheran Home employs 10th robot with Chat GPT-enabled companion robot trial

Regional South Australian aged care provider Tanunda Lutheran Home (TLH) is trialling its 10th robot - a Chat GPT-enabled companion robot which has been developed by US-based Andromeda Robotics. The ‘Abi Robot’ will arrive at the 120-bed TLH in...

Caroline Egan

11 Apr 2024

Sector Moves & People

Paul Turner appointed CEO of Navorina Nursing Home in Deniliquin, NSW

From 1 December 2023, higher regulatory burdens for aged care executives came into effect. Prior to the introduction of the changes, The SOURCE reported on the difficulties of finding suitably qualified and experienced aged care executives...

Caroline Egan

11 Apr 2024

Sector Moves/People

Linda Feldt appointed CEO of ACH Group after Interim role

South Australian Not For Profit aged care provider, ACH Group, has appointed former COO Linda Feldt as CEO. Linda joined ACH Group in 2015. She was appointed Interim CEO in November 2023, after former CEO Frank Weits stepped down from the top job...

Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2024

Sector Moves & People

Why GemLife is putting Virtual Power Plants renewable energy into eight more land lease resorts

Mark Langdon (pictured left with GemLife Director and CEO Adrian Puljich), CEO of Prospecta Utilities, has told The SOURCE the bald facts of properly configuring A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) into a retirement living operation. VPPs are in operation...

Ian Horswill

09 Apr 2024

Legal Issues

ARQRV receives $139,000 to inform prospective clients of retirement villages

Judy Mayfield, President of the Association of Residents of Queensland Retirement Villages (ARQRV), said her organisation has been funded by the Queensland Government to provide advice to prospective clients. “We have a grant for $139,000 to tell...

Ian Horswill

09 Apr 2024

Sector Moves & People

HammondCare names Andrew Thorburn successor to CEO Mike Baird

Andrew Thorburn, the former CEO of National Australia Bank and the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed the next CEO of Not For Profit health and aged care provider HammondCare, replacing Mike Baird AO at the beginning of June. HammondCare Board...

Ian Horswill

08 Apr 2024