Topic - Aged Care

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Jul 25 2017 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Three big questions the Budget must answer for aged care sector executives to move forward. Time for bravery?

With the Federal Budget now just 12 days away, there remains several unanswered questions that are weighing on boards and executives across the aged care sector. Despite the Aged Care Taskforce, chaired by the Aged Care Minister Anika Wells, handing...

Lauren Broomham

02 May 2024

Opinion

Shared Care closer than we may think for retirement villages – will independent living fade away?

Over the weekend I was trawling through the slide deck of the Department of Health and Aged Care webinar in February discussing the future direction of Home Care and Support at Home. Hidden on about slide 46 was the clipping above which clearly...

Chris Baynes

30 Apr 2024

Acquisitions

Healthcare Australia buys home care provider My Care Solution

South Australian family-owned home care provider My Care Solution has sold its operations to Healthcare Australia, which is owned by Sydney-based venture capital firm Crescent Capital. Healthcare Australia is a healthcare staffing business, with...

Caroline Egan

02 May 2024

Development

Stockland expects to launch up to 12 land lease communities in FY24 with home sales up 50%

In a 3Q24 Market Update to the ASX on Monday, 29 April, the diversified property group said it had sold 104 land lease homes (versus 50 homes in 3Q23) with five new project launches over FY24 year-to-date. “As at 31 March 2024, there were 502...

Ian Horswill

30 Apr 2024

Webstercare to host free MedSig webinars

Leading medication management provider Webstercare has announced it will hold a series of free, 45-minute webinars in May focused on refreshing participants’ knowledge on the MedSig and MedSig Admin platforms. The webinars will cater to the needs of...

Caroline Egan

02 May 2024

Aged Care

Labor’s aged care promises when elected - how have they done?

When Anthony Albanese’s Labor Government came to power in 2022, they did so, in part, on the promise of fixing Australia’s aged care system. In the wake of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and a Government that had been in...

Caroline Egan

02 May 2024

Aged Care

Three big questions the Budget must answer for aged care sector executives to move forward. Time for bravery?

Lauren Broomham

02 May 2024

Aged Care

‘Great news’ for seniors’ housing in new NSW Transport Oriented Development planning reforms

The call by planners to include seniors housing, including residential aged care and co-located aged care and independent living, in the new building zones around 37 railway stations as part of changes to the Housing SEPP has been agreed. The...

Ian Horswill

02 May 2024