Opinion Reminder: Labor spruiking $17.7B aged care wage spend is great news – but Coalition put first stake in the ground One figure from Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Tuesday Federal Budget stood out to me. Click here Lauren Broomham 23 hours ago
Retirement and Community Living SATURDAY means business: why retirement living operators need to choose their lane now At the 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT, Cam Ansell, the Managing Director of aged care and retirement living advisory firm Ansell Strategic, forecast that village operators offering only accommodation – with no care services – will see a dip in popularity... Click here Lauren Broomham 24 Mar 2025
Opinion LEADERS SUMMIT 2025: ‘wellness’ and reablement should be key to future strategy for sector Australia is already struggling to meet growing demand for care and support and this will only worsen with the ageing population - the focus must shift to reaching people before they require hospital-level treatment with much of the responsibility falling on aged care and retirement living operators. Click here Lauren Broomham 20 Mar 2025
Opinion LEADERS SUMMIT 2025: Sector must take the lead on ageing strategy, warns Chris Baynes The Government is not equipped to deliver a clear-cut plan to address the doubling of demand over the fixed supply of home care and residential aged care – and the sector will need to fill this leadership gap, the DCM Group CEO has advised over 570 executives at the 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT. Click here Lauren Broomham 20 Mar 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Respect makes first foray into WA aged care operations After over 40 years of ownership, Amana Living is set to hand over its aged care home, retirement village and home care services in the regional town, around 593km west of Perth, to the rural and regional specialist – marking the acquisition of Respect’s 28th aged care facility. Click here Lauren Broomham 20 Mar 2025
Government Policy Proposed liquidity requirements likely to increase cost of capital and threaten new builds, warns StewartBrown Residential aged care operators would need to retain more than double the amount of liquid assets that they already hold under the proposed new Financial and Prudential Standards – according to new modelling released by the aged care accountants this afternoon (Friday 14 March). Click here Lauren Broomham 14 Mar 2025
DIGITAL EDITION SATURDAY Issue 94 Private versus Not For Profit: which has the smallest gender gap? Meet the Top 10 largest aged care operators with the smallest gender pay gaps – and most are led by men. Half of Australia’s largest aged care providers with the lowest gender pay gaps are For Profit operators – and eight of the 10 are led by... Click here Lauren Broomham 14 Mar 2025
DIGITAL EDITION SATURDAY Issue 94 Opinion: aged care is a $30B industry. Why isn’t it treated like it? New data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has underlined the size and scale of the sector. Yet, operators are rarely afforded a say in Government policy about their future. Is it time for the sector to make its own destiny? Poring... Click here Lauren Broomham 14 Mar 2025
DIGITAL EDITION SATURDAY Issue 94 Clinical care or bust? The hard choice facing home care providers 80% of home care services are non-clinical – but Support at Home will see Government cash re-directed towards nursing care and allied health. Are your services and workforce ready for this seismic shift? The new Support at Home Program is... Click here Lauren Broomham 14 Mar 2025
DIGITAL EDITION SATURDAY Issue 94 The $56K wage difference: the benefits of scale With labour the biggest expense for residential aged care operators, newly released 2023-24 data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) indicates that when it comes to saving on wage costs, bigger is better. Smaller residential aged care... Click here Lauren Broomham 14 Mar 2025
DIGITAL EDITION SATURDAY Issue 94 Top 25 largest residential aged care operators’ pay revealed New data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed what the country’s largest employers are paying their staff – including their remuneration by pay quartile. How much do our major residential aged care providers pay to their... Click here Lauren Broomham 14 Mar 2025
DIGITAL EDITION SATURDAY Issue 94 Top 20 largest home care operators’ pay revealed How much is paid by who, and is it balanced across genders? The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has published the latest gender pay gaps for over 7,800 employers and 1,700 corporate groups – including their total average remuneration and... Click here Lauren Broomham 14 Mar 2025
DIGITAL EDITION SATURDAY Issue 94 Largest retirement village operators’ pay revealed The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has published its latest set of Australian private sector employer gender gaps – releasing for the first time each employers’ average remuneration by pay quartile. So, how do Australia’s biggest... Click here Lauren Broomham 14 Mar 2025
