Health

Is this the only way badly needed new aged care beds will be built?

Wollongong Lord Mayor Tania Brown, through council general manager Greg Doyle, has written to NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Paul Scully to consider a scheme to incentivise investment in residential aged care on the NSW South Coast. The...

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Ian Horswill

18 Dec 2024

Health

ACH opens its third Health Studio with HUR equipment for its wide community

The leading South Australian Not For Profit has opened a new $5 million advanced health and wellbeing hub at Rostrevor, 10km east-northeast of Adelaide’s CBD. The health studio includes a gym equipped with state-of-the-art HUR Australia exercise...

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Ian Horswill

18 Nov 2024

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

Health

COVID-19 vaccinations double after Janet Anderson’s warning to boards of aged care operators

More than half (51.5%) of aged care residents have received a COVID-19 vaccination in the last six months, after more than 23,000 residents received their shot in the month to 7 August, compared with only 12,000 for the month to 27 June, according...

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Caroline Egan

15 Aug 2024

Health

ACH Group to open its fourth Wellness location in Adelaide with its $5M Rostrevor Health Studio

It is being built on land adjacent to the group’s Milpara aged care home and only two streets from its existing Pullin Court retirement village in Rostrevor, 10km east-northeast of Adelaide’s CBD. Another eight ACH Group villages, with 189...

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Ian Horswill

12 Aug 2024

Sector Moves/People

Former Bethanie Chief Executive Officer Chris How appointed to new NDIS role

Chris resigned after 11 years as head of the Perth-based Not For Profit provider of retirement living, home care, aged care, and community housing in September 2023. He had worked for Bethanie for 15 years and under his leadership the operator...

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Ian Horswill

29 Jul 2024

Health

Keyton’s ‘Ignite Your Passion’ activity program receives 260 resident applications for up to $1500 each

In April, The Weekly SOURCE reported on the launch of Keyton’s innovative Resident Activity Program which allocates $1500 to a resident project or activity “that has positive outcomes for you, other residents and the village or resort.” Head...

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Ian Horswill

08 Jul 2024

Living with Dementia

Dementia Australia: “We could be delaying or potentially preventing 40% of dementia cases”

CEO Professor Tanya Buchanan said the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s Australia’s Health 2024 report, released on Tuesday, illustrates the enormity and impact of dementia in Australia as the chronic disease of the 21st century. “The...

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Ian Horswill

04 Jul 2024

Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Aged care beds lie empty as GP crisis hits the sector

Even in metropolitan areas, aged care facilities are struggling to find GPs to deliver continuity of care to their residents – could a multidisciplinary approach to delivering health services in residential aged care be the answer? Find out in...

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Caroline Egan

04 Jul 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

In the Headlines

Only in SATURDAY: 2,000 older people trapped in hospital

With few new aged care beds being built and continued uncertainty about funding reform, there are now enough Mums and Dads sitting in hospital beds around the country to fill around 16 aged care homes. Hospital beds used by people waiting for...

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Lauren Broomham

02 Jul 2024