Sector Moves/People

CEOs speak out: Are retirement villages the default “low care”?

Jul 23 2024 Updated July 23, 2024

Ian Horswill

1 min read

The push is on for retirement village operators to provide more home care services in the new Support at Home regulations, put back by the Australian Government to 1 July 2025.

With the average age of entry 75 years of age, and the length of stay creeping up to nine years, DCM Group CEO Chris Baynes asked Daniel Aitchison (pictured right), CEO of Palm Lake Care; Sean Graham, CEO of retirement village operator Aura Holdings; Jason Eldering, CEO of Southern Cross Care Queensland (pictured left); Kaizaad Mehta, and Adam Crombie, Relationship Director, Westpac Healthcare:

Are retirement villages the default "low care"?

The three CEOs were then asked at the latest Westpac Leading Conversations at the Wharf in Brisbane:

Are you seeing a challenge in residents finding positions in hospitals or residential aged care?

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