Opinion Disappointment confirmed: Taskforce recommendations excluded from next Tuesday’s Budget I wrote in March that the release of the recommendations was “all about shifting the ground and conversations” Chris Baynes 12 hours ago
Opinion Don’t understand housing supply? Read these two excellent reports Last week our Content Editor, Ian Horswill, walked up to me and said “you must read this report”. He was right, and it was very sobering. Titled ‘Rental Affordability Snapshot 2024’, published by Anglicare Australia, it broke down how many... Chris Baynes 07 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
SATURDAY Issue 74 Think big. Think care campuses. The gnarly problem: the lack of new ageing accommodation infrastructure over 20 years has hit the Baby Boomer demand bubble. Bad outcomes for old people are accelerating. Planning approval hurdles are cited as the root cause. Delay and bureaucratic... Chris Baynes 26 Apr 2024
Opinion 576 village sellers are waking up: buyers are knocking on doors as the demand and supply penny drops on seniors accommodation With Aveo selling 16 villages and RetireAustralia, with 29 villages, now also up for full sale (again), we hear a lot about these big players in seniors accommodation, but little about the little guys – and there are a lot of them. In fact we have... Chris Baynes 22 Apr 2024
Opinion The “New” model for a Silver Decade for retirement living operators Optimism, the title of LEADERS SUMMIT 2024, continues to be the dominant theme in the retirement village sector as we move towards the end of the financial year. In this issue, we report on Mark Bindon’s speech at LEADERS SUMMIT where he revealed... Chris Baynes 16 Apr 2024
Opinion With little retirement living development taking place in NSW, these four people are fighting for change The Retirement Living Council states there will be a shortfall of 49,000 seniors housing independent living units (ILUs) just to keep up with the current penetration rate by 2030. With only low levels of construction for seniors housing underway... Chris Baynes 09 Apr 2024
Opinion What do you advise your staff to say when there is no advice for the most needy? We have two public facing websites (villages. com. au and agedccare101. com. au) and each week they receive several desperate requests for help to locate accommodation by people in their 70s, 80s and 90s. And then there are the phone calls. These days... Chris Baynes 02 Apr 2024
Aged Care Hospital bed crisis is aged care crisis – 375 new beds every month required According to a study by Deloitte, the growth in new hospital beds over the next 15 years has stalled at around 95,990 beds. Their report however states that by 2036 the country will require 148,317 beds, a 55% increase. Deloitte calculates that to... Chris Baynes 28 Mar 2024
SATURDAY Issue 72 Small and medium care operators: “IT investments and smarts will kill them” Prue Bowden, CEO of Home Health at Australian Unity, told the LEADERS SUMMIT that she leads a ‘logistics company with a heart’, not a home care or residential care company. Does this definition sound the death knell for small and medium care... Chris Baynes 27 Mar 2024
Opinion Cam Ansell predicts private aged care in retirement villages is the growth service About 11 years ago Cam Ansell jumped ship from advisory group Grant Thornton to establish his own advisory group, Ansell Strategic. Today he is at the forefront of the reshaping of retirement living and aged care, thanks to his in-demand mergers and... Chris Baynes 26 Mar 2024
News & Issues LEADERS SUMMIT 2024: the sector needs Leadership and Responsibility: Chris Baynes CEO DCM Group The lack of new aged care beds being built is a ‘nation challenge’ that requires responsibility and leadership from the sector to rectify, rather than simply pointing to the government to act, was a cornerstone of presentations made at the... Chris Baynes 21 Mar 2024
Topic - Opinion Houston, we have a problem. No hospital beds as well as no care beds On page 5 of The Australian today the Australian Medical Association is going to the media to say that hospitals across the country are experiencing the highest levels on record of emergency presentations and bed blockers. Many are retirement... Chris Baynes 18 Mar 2024