Topic - Aged Care

Uniting expands Sydney aged care facility with 137 village units

May 09 2017 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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An artist’s impression of the Bowden Brae Normanhurst development

The new ILUs will be built at its 106-bed Bowden Brae Normanhurst aged care facility on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, 28km northwest of the CBD.

The first stage of the redevelopment will be built by Cockram Constructions and will also feature a wellness centre, café and swimming pool.

Exclusive: Levande buys four new sites for retirement villages

Levande adds four new sites to its $2B growth plan, including major developments in Sydney, Melbourne, and Geelong.

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025

Sector Moves & People

Bolton Clarke announces former Ramsay Health Care executive Olivier Chretien as new Group CEO

Australia’s largest Not For Profit aged care provider has appointed the experienced CEO and executive Olivier Chretien as Group CEO, effective 1 July 2025.

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Caroline Egan

30 Apr 2025

Opinion

Why 20 May is more important to the retirement living sector than Election Day

The Baby Boomer generation is being ignored by the Labor and Liberal-National Coalition parties as the Gen Y and Gen Z become the increasingly dominant generations and this will not change.

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025

Opinion

Aged care isn’t fixed – so why are we not talking about it?

If you tuned into yesterday’s National Press Club debate between Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, and Shadow Minister, Anne Ruston, hoping for a meaningful discussion on aged care – you would have been sorely disappointed.

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Lauren Broomham

24 Apr 2025

15 new social homes planned for senior co-housing community in WA’s South West

“Whilst the project does not offer assisted living or nursing facilities, and each member is responsible for themselves, it is common in cohousing communities that if someone is sick, neighbours will help with activities like bringing them meals...

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Barossa Village revitalises underutilised land for the Buna/Kokoda housing project in Nuriootpa

Each of the five homes, which replaced two houses on the 2,400msq site in the town of Nuriootpa, the commercial centre of South Australia’s Barossa Valley, has been individually designed. “These are not one-size-fits-all units — they are...

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Ian Horswill

14 Apr 2025

Topic - Housing News

Mergers & Acquisitions

‘Affordable’ Aspen Group adds to portfolio with second WA land buy in six weeks

The ASX-listed affordable housing group announced last Wednesday it has entered a conditional contract to buy a new 18ha accommodation complex in Australind, a town 12km northeast of Bunbury’s CBD. Aspen Group, which serves the 40% of Australian...

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Ian Horswill

07 Apr 2025

Topic - Housing News

Sydney Anglican Property lodging DAs to renew two sites with housing for women over 55 included

Social and affordable housing is much-needed in Sydney’s southwest and two projects delivering almost 260 such homes have been successful under Round 1 of the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF). However, as the Coalition...

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Ian Horswill

31 Mar 2025