Community Living

Only in SATURDAY: Assisted living comes of age (again) – it can be financially viable

Aug 08 2023 Updated August 8, 2023

Ian Horswill

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Reports of the death of serviced apartments are premature: assisted living is finding new life as a self-funded model. Find out how, only in SATURDAY, which costs $275 including GST ($25), less than a three-course meal at a restaurant in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. SUBSCRIBE NOW

11 aged care providers ‘named and shamed’ by the regulator for failing care minute targets

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has named 27 residential aged care homes and eleven providers who have been hit with ‘enforceable undertakings’ for failing to meet their care minute targets. Nine of the 27 homes listed are operated by Tricare.

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Caroline Egan

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Opinion

Today, with 78-year-old President Trump in America and 30-something Adrian Puljich and Patrick Abolakian in Australia, each stand out – but we are in better hands

What a day. The US and the world looks to Trump to make America (and the world?) great with his inauguration and his deportation of immigrants. Here in Australia’s seniors living sector, we have two sons of immigrants leading the way to support...

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Chris Baynes

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Opinion

Is aged care ‘fixed’? The PM says yes – the numbers say no. We need 4%

New year, same old problem: where will the country find the capital to incentivise development of new beds – before the next wave of Baby Boomers hits? As we report in this issue, the latest StewartBrown Aged Care Performance Survey Analysis...

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Lauren Broomham

23 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Department’s $580,000 aged care Star Ratings evaluation reveals what operators already know

Management consultants Allen + Clarke found Australia’s Star Ratings system has incentivised improvements to the quality of aged care services but “perceived inaccuracies” in the staffing and compliance ratings and ”negative media coverage” had eroded trust in the system.

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Caroline Egan

16 Jan 2025

Calvary Health Care turns retirement village into its first rental village

The Catholic provider’s Sydney Williams retirement village in Doncaster East, 20km east of Melbourne’s CBD, will operate as a seniors’ rental site due to community need as cost-of-living pressures impact seniors. The...

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Ian Horswill

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Development

There is no DA yet but Aliria’s next land lease community revealed with rentals added

Adrian Puljich has revealed the location for the first two boutique land lease communities for his own personal land lease brand. JRT Group began the building of Aliria on Dean in Berserker, about 6km northeast of Rockhampton’s CBD., in December...

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Village operators: beware the media. Ignore the Code of Conduct at your peril - Sign up today

In this issue of The Weekly SOURCE we discuss how Lifestyle Communities lost $950 million in value in three months, thanks to three media reports on ABC TV. With village residents now significantly older, media alarm bells should be ringing. Our...

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Regulatory changes, including Asset Management Plans, for retirement village operators in NSW

Major changes to the mandatory Asset Management Plan, the bane of life for all village managers, are planned by the NSW Government. Fair Trading wants stakeholders to have a say on the proposed changes. “The updates aim to improve transparency for...

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Ian Horswill

28 Jan 2025