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

Ageing

SATURDAY subscription magazine: Phil Usher grows from zero to $600M in private aged care with Odyssey Lifestyle Care Communities

The Weekly SOURCE on Tuesday, 6 August, revealed the sector innovator’s fourth private aged care community, operated under the Retirement Villages Act. Now Phil has given an exclusive interview to DCM Group editor Lauren Broomham where he reveals...

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Ian Horswill

19 Aug 2024

Ageing

96.4% of Anglicare Sydney’s Woolooware Shores Village residents want ‘full care’ offered in pilot

The promise of an on-site care team including nursing and care staff, allied health services, available 24/7, has captured the imagination of residents and their families. Cassandra Mathews, Chief Executive of Anglicare Sydney’s Seniors Living...

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Ian Horswill

02 Jul 2024

Sector Moves & People

Resident abuse awareness in retirement living not enough: Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM

The Retirement Living Council has been put on notice it must introduce new nationwide strategies to better identify and respond to resident abuse. The Age Discrimination Commissioner, Robert Fitzgerald AM, who spoke at the National Retirement Living...

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Ian Horswill

01 Jul 2024

Living with Dementia

De-escalate behaviour emergencies with Dementia Australia’s new VR training

Dementia Australia has launched a virtual reality (VR) training program aimed at de-escalating behavioural emergency situations involving people living with dementia in care settings. The training, titled ‘D-Esc’, uses an immersive simulation for...

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Caroline Egan

13 Jun 2024

Government Policy

NSW Govt to spend millions trying to put elderly into aged care

The NSW Government has announced a $480.7 million package aimed at avoiding 290,000 hospital emergency department (ED) visits every year, including measures that improve the flow of patients through the hospital system, including into residential aged care.

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Caroline Egan

13 Jun 2024

Aged Care

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner & CMO write to aged care board Chairs of Covid, flu surge

The Federal Government’s Care Finder program, which has cost nearly $234 million between 2022-23 and 2024-25, has provided support to older Australians, but is being hampered by a lack of service availability to providers

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Caroline Egan

30 May 2024

Ageing

Retirement Living Council’s Shared Care set to be part of Support at Home

The concept of Shared Care is to take a small portion of a large number of village residents’ Community and Home Support packages and apply those funds to the full village, which would deliver economies of scale and investments in wellness...

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Ian Horswill

27 May 2024

Health

Vic Govt abandons major hospital projects amid Budget blowout

The Victorian Government has delayed hospital building projects amid a shortage of construction workers and a blowout in interest repayments on debt. A plan to build two hospital towers - Royal Melbourne and Royal Women’s Hospital - at North...

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Caroline Egan

09 May 2024

Opinion

Three big questions the Budget must answer for aged care sector executives to move forward. Time for bravery?

With the Federal Budget now just 12 days away, there remains several unanswered questions that are weighing on boards and executives across the aged care sector. Despite the Aged Care Taskforce, chaired by the Aged Care Minister Anika Wells, handing...

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Lauren Broomham

02 May 2024

Government Policy

Aged Care Minister Mark Butler’s big change for residential aged care

The Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler announced during the week that pharmacists will be funded by the Government to go into residential aged care homes and deliver vaccines to residents for free, a measure that was previously only...

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Caroline Egan

24 Apr 2024

Opinion

Opinion: Hospital wait times are a dire sign of the future that awaits ageing Australia

The latest data shows hospital beds are at a premium – and older Australians are the most likely to miss out. Is there a solution? As we report in this issue, emergency wait times are at their longest in a decade while surgery wait times are at...

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Lauren Broomham

23 Apr 2024

Ageing

Retirement Living operator Aveo’s Baby Boomers survey reveals they want to live independently with services available

Australia’s leading retirement living owner and operator has released the findings of its Ageing Australia Study, a survey of more than 1,000 Baby Boomers, now aged between 58 to 77. Its findings show the Boomers want to reinvent living to focus on...

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Ian Horswill

09 Apr 2024