Here is our thinking: Australia’s 700 co-located retirement villages will have 6,560 village homes vacated each year, or 126 every week. Why doesn’t the sector turn each vacated home over to a human being currently stuck in hospital?
Colliers’ new Residential Aged Care Market Report confirms what everyone in the sector has felt in their bones: Australia’s aged care system is on a collision course. The headline figure – 800 new residential places in 2024-25 – was already pitiable. Once Boxwell & Co corrected the Department’s data, the
Cameron McPherson, CEO of Medical & Aged Care Group, writes that Australia’s new Aged Care Act funds care delivery on a cost basis rather than on outcomes, rewarding activity over measurable gains in independence, connection and quality of life.
We said horror stories were coming and here they are. This week’s headlines have been dominated by an assessment system that can’t assess, a program that can’t keep up, and older Australians stranded in the gap. The numbers are no longer...
