18 CEOs and senior village management gave their time to discuss with over 600 village managers the future skill sets they will require as retirement villages expand their care pathway. They spoke at our VILLAGE SUMMIT 2023, which concluded in Sydney last week.

The final event in the DCM Institute 2023 calendar, the VILLAGE SUMMIT canvassed the future challenge that, with just 1,580 care beds being built in 2022, where will the aged care beds be in the future that retirement village residents will be able to transfer to?

The consensus was that there would not be freely available beds, mean