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Lauren
Broomham

Sink or swim: aged care can’t wait for productivity reform

Hospitals are already flooded with elderly Australians lying in beds when they should be in aged care. The tide is rising. In 2022, then-Aged Care Minister Anika Wells warned the system was not ready for the incoming wave of Baby Boomers. The reality? She may have been five years too late.

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Lauren Broomham

5 hours ago

Ageing

SATURDAY sounds the alarm: Dementia is ‘galloping’ through retirement villages

Dementia rates in villages are climbing fast – but with limited staff, legal barriers to moving residents, and no clear safety net, operators risk being caught off guard. Where are the biggest risks – and what’s being tried to fix them? Find out in this week’s SATURDAY, our premium digital magazine.

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Lauren Broomham

11 Aug 2025

Opinion

Aged care beds are running out. What’s the plan?

The numbers don’t lie: we are headed for a shortfall of aged care and hospital beds unlike anything we’ve seen before. As we report in this issue, in Western Australia alone, around 200 hospital beds a day are being occupied by older people who...

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Lauren Broomham

06 Aug 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

DA-approved aged care site in Western Sydney offered to market

An aged care development site in Sefton, 23km west of the Sydney CBD, has been listed for sale via Expressions of Interest through Health Aged Care Confidential and Ray White Commercial Western Sydney.

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Lauren Broomham

06 Aug 2025

Government Policy

“We need to build”: Aged care leaders call for capital reform and hospital discharge fixes

Australia needs 200,000 more aged care beds over the next 20 years – and aged care leaders say we won’t get there without tackling two big issues: capital access and hospital-to-aged care transitions, the IHACPA Conference aged care reform panel in Adelaide heard.

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Lauren Broomham

06 Aug 2025

Government Policy

Final Aged Care Rules land, three months out from major system overhaul

The final draft of the Aged Care Rules released ahead of 1 November new Aged Care Act, detailing major changes across residential care, Support at Home and provider obligations has been released by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. Ageing Australia responds.

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Issue 104 | Simon Owen - The winning formula

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Opinion: Land lease delivers on mission – so why are Not For Profits missing in the land lease action?

Affordable, secure, and community-driven housing. For decades, this has been the mantra of the Not For Profit retirement living sector. And yet, one of the fastest-growing models delivering exactly that – land lease communities – is being left...

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11 new land lease operators you don’t know, plus one

We have done a fresh tally of the next wave of LLC players who bring billions of dollars in capital and thousands of new homes, without mentioning the Macquarie Bank offshoot that is about to be revealed. There’s a shake-up happening in the land...

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The old hands building faster than ever

Serenitas CEO Von Slater (pictured) is set to launch seven new land lease communities in the next 12 months. She is just one of a small army of now seasoned LLC developers going hard. While new entrants are energising Australia’s land lease...

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A family home, not an institution: the Abbeyfield answer for low-income seniors

In the leafy suburbs of Melbourne, on an ordinary street, sits an ordinary house. There is no signage or nurses’ station. But inside, 10 older Australians sit down together for a home-cooked lunch, prepared by a live-in housekeeper who also checks...

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The future of village care, without compromise

How The Verge’s Care Hub is rewriting the rules of aged care in retirement villages – one home-like suite at a time. When RetireAustralia launched The Verge at Burleigh on Queensland’s Gold Coast, it set out to answer a big question: how do...

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Executive spotlight

Over 3,000 operators provide retirement living, aged care and support in the home to more than 1.5 million older Australians. 360,000 staff and 100,000 suppliers are engaged every day. It’s a $30 billion a year sector delivering vital services for our older citizens. At SATURDAY, we believe we should recognise and celebrate the leaders in this challenging but rewarding sector.

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Lauren Broomham

01 Aug 2025