Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Flattening the frailty curve with a wellness business model

Nov 06 2025 Updated 2 hours ago

Caroline Egan

1 min read

At Catholic Healthcare, CEO Josh McFarlane says wellness isn’t a buzzword – it’s a business model. The operator is quietly expanding its network of Wellness Centres and Mind & Move programs, believing that prevention should sit at the centre of aged care thinking.

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Australian Senate votes for two separate inquiries into aged care reform

The Senate has voted to establish two new Senate inquiries into the Government’s historic aged care reforms, rollout out on the weekend after years of preparation, amid concerns they will not deliver for older Australians.

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Caroline Egan

04 Nov 2025

Government Policy

No excuse for providers to not be ready on 1 November: Aged Care Minister Sam Rae

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has told ABC radio the Aged Care Rules have been in place for “a significant amount of time” and the Government has been listening to and supporting to the sector, “so, there really isn’t an excuse from any provider to not be prepared for 1 November”.

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Caroline Egan

23 Oct 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Aged care consolidation continues: Regis Aged Care on the march

The ASX-listed operator has entered into binding agreements to acquire family-owned OC Health’s two remaining aged care homes for $45 million plus a $36 million liability for RADs. The purchase of Ocean Mist, in Torquay, a seaside town southwest of...

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Caroline Egan

23 Oct 2025

Opinion

Retirement villages now hot investments: Here is why

Aveo is even sweeter in that it has been moving its contracts to a mix of upfront payments rather than the DMF. In March 2024, we reported in The Weekly SOURCE that a third of new Aveo customers have chosen an alternative to the traditional deferred...

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Chris Baynes

04 Nov 2025

“It’s heartbreaking”: pressure builds for regional aged care beds

Taralga Aged Care Facility in Jandowae on Queensland’s Darling Downs is seeking Government support to expand, with all 22 beds full and a waiting list of up to 60.

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Caroline Egan

19 hours ago

Retirement and Community Living

Community Living

Newly opened Vantage Hervey Bay land lease community will always be special to AVID

Heike and Michael Duggin have made the 1,000-kilometre move from Townsville to Hervey Bay – and into the record books as the first residents of AVID Property Group’s new land lease community, Vantage Hervey Bay. A further 40 residents are expected to move in later this year.

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Ian Horswill

04 Nov 2025

Retirement and Community Living

Retirement by Moran’s surprise aged care operator for proposed village

Sally Taylor, Managing Director of Retirement by Moran, used the latest Westpac Conversation at the Wharf luncheon to outline the State Significant Development Application for “Indigo by Moran” at Narrabeen.

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Gladstone Regional Council victorious over change to approved land lease community

Queensland’s Planning and Environment Court has dismissed an appeal by Brades Property Agnes Water, upholding Gladstone Regional Council’s refusal of a proposal to swap an approved 360-lot manufactured housing estate (land lease community) for a 158-home conventional residential subdivision at Agnes Water.

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Ian Horswill

04 Nov 2025