Topic - Health

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

Sector Moves & People

Former Newcastle Lord Mayor and prominent developer Jeff McCloy dies aged 75

The builder behind Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital and several major retirement village projects has been remembered for his vision and love of the Hunter Region. He passed away, surrounded by family and friends on Queensland’s Gold Coast, at 1pm...

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Ian Horswill

30 Jun 2025

Living with Dementia

Anglicare Southern Queensland open first specialist dementia care units on Gold Coast

The Australian Government Department of halth, Disability and Ageing has given $2.6 million to the has been spent unit at the Abri Residential Aged Care Home in Southport. The SDCP unit will be delivered through funding from the Commonwealth...

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Ian Horswill

12 Jun 2025

Aged Care

Rethinking healthcare at home: why Amplar Health is building the future for ageing Australians

Australia’s population is ageing, hospitals are under pressure, and traditional care models are falling short. Amplar Health, led by CEO Robert Read (pictured above), is reimagining healthcare with hospital-level services delivered at home...

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Lauren Broomham

12 Jun 2025

Government Policy

NSW elective surgery wait times hit worst levels since COVID-19

There were 100,678 patients on the waiting list for elective surgery in NSW public hospitals at the end of March 2025, up 7.3% on the same time last year, and just 346 patients short of the 101,024 peak recorded at the height of the COVID-19...

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Caroline Egan

12 Jun 2025

Health

SATURDAY 100th issue reimagines care: Can your home be the new hospital?

With aged care under strain and hospitals stretched thin, Amplar Health is leading a quiet but powerful revolution: delivering hospital-level care at home.

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Lauren Broomham

05 Jun 2025

Sector Moves & People

Calvary Health Care announces McKinsey & Co’s Damien Bruce to become National CEO

McKinsey & Company consultant Damien Bruce has been appointed National CEO of Calvary Health Care, the Catholic health, home, and aged care provider, following the retirement of current National CEO Martin Bowles earlier this year.

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Caroline Egan

29 Apr 2025

Government Policy

Is this the only way badly needed new aged care beds will be built?

Wollongong Lord Mayor Tania Brown, through council general manager Greg Doyle, has written to NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Paul Scully to consider a scheme to incentivise investment in residential aged care on the NSW South Coast. The...

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Ian Horswill

18 Dec 2024

Health

ACH opens its third Health Studio with HUR equipment for its wide community

The leading South Australian Not For Profit has opened a new $5 million advanced health and wellbeing hub at Rostrevor, 10km east-northeast of Adelaide’s CBD. The health studio includes a gym equipped with state-of-the-art HUR Australia exercise...

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Ian Horswill

18 Nov 2024

Ageing

Retirement by Moran provides empty Northern Beaches RAC to women in need – offers guidance to others on how

The private operator is facing at least two years to redevelop its 90 bed RAC. It has worked out how to provide it as accommodation to women in need at no cost. An initiative led by Sally Taylor, Managing Director of Retirement by Moran, they bought...

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Ian Horswill

20 Aug 2024

Sector Moves/People

Former Bethanie Chief Executive Officer Chris How appointed to new NDIS role

Chris resigned after 11 years as head of the Perth-based Not For Profit provider of retirement living, home care, aged care, and community housing in September 2023. He had worked for Bethanie for 15 years and under his leadership the operator...

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Ian Horswill

29 Jul 2024

Health

Keyton’s ‘Ignite Your Passion’ activity program receives 260 resident applications for up to $1500 each

In April, The Weekly SOURCE reported on the launch of Keyton’s innovative Resident Activity Program which allocates $1500 to a resident project or activity “that has positive outcomes for you, other residents and the village or resort.” Head...

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Ian Horswill

08 Jul 2024

Living with Dementia

Dementia Australia: “We could be delaying or potentially preventing 40% of dementia cases”

CEO Professor Tanya Buchanan said the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s Australia’s Health 2024 report, released on Tuesday, illustrates the enormity and impact of dementia in Australia as the chronic disease of the 21st century. “The...

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Ian Horswill

04 Jul 2024