SATURDAY Issue 90

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SATURDAY Issue 90

Opinion: we need to celebrate our village and aged care innovators

As they say: when the going gets tough, the tough get going – and the retirement living and aged care sectors are no exception. Despite little new cash and increasing red tape, the ageing sector continues to innovate and work hard to improve its...

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Every village and RAC will need high speed, reliable connectivity to support virtual health and customer expectations

With more older Australians ageing in place at home – and aged care facing continued workforce shortages – high-speed Internet and private 5G networks are essential. Village and aged care operators will need to meet virtual home care, staffing...

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Leaders advise retirement villages the new ‘low care’ within five years

With few new aged care beds being built and the age of residents rising, retirement villages are seeing more residents staying put, not able or not wanting to enter residential care. What does this mean for the concept of villages being independent...

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VILLAGE SUMMIT 2024: 650 Village Professionals can’t be wrong

Each year, more operators lead with a mantra of ‘putting residents first’. Rightly so. The people tasked with delivering on this are the staff on the front line. Village Managers. Sales Managers. Regional support staff. These are also the people...

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MABLE: winning all the staff – and B2B clients

The new Support at Home program will demand that home care providers have scale and efficiency to deliver quality care and maintain their financial margins. With over 250 partnerships with operators already in place and lower margins, Mable is...

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APOLLO CARE: the ‘war machine’ saving smaller, distressed facilities in regional communities

With few aged care homes being refurbished – and even fewer new aged care beds being built –country Australia is facing a desperate need for homes to stay open and expand to meet growing demand. Much of the challenge to success in regional areas...

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AMPLAR HEALTH: Medibank’s virtual and on location acute care that will dominate home care

With the logistics of providing acute care into the home beyond most home care providers, compounded by increasing shortages in staff, aged care and hospital beds, a small number of national Hospital in the Home providers is emerging as essential...

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FOR PURPOSE INVESTMENT PARTNERS: raising millions to invest in residential aged care growth

The residential aged care sector has become a ‘no-go zone’ for most investors in recent years as the media scrutiny from the Aged Care Royal Commission and the ongoing financial and regulatory uncertainty drive away logical investors such as the...

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EUREKA VILLAGES: Simon Owen seeks to repeat his success

While the number of Baby Boomers turning 70 is accelerating, the same can not be said for the supply of affordable seniors’ living in Australia. With demand for rentals set to skyrocket, former Ingenia CEO Simon Owen is taking Eureka vertical as...

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FIVE GOOD FRIENDS: Day One digital home care strategy rewarded

It took two digital natives foreign to home care to create the sector’s first human digital solution that has now delivered 1.7 million hours of direct care from a standing start eight years ago. When Nathan Betteridge and Simon Lockyer...

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ANGLICARE SYDNEY: the Not For Profit successfully replicating LDK’s Village Membership model

The LDK membership model has proven that retirement villages can deliver care to their residents under the Retirement Village Act – and that older Australians will pay upfront for care and support. Now Anglicare is showing that this model can be...

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IAGEHEALTH: the virtual nursing solution saving thousands on staffing costs

With aged care short of 4,000 Registered Nurses this year – and this number only set to rise – the lack of clinical care staff is impacting not only quality of care but also providers’ bottom lines, particularly in regional and remote areas...

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RETIREAUSTRALIA: pioneering ‘user pays’ care in retirement villages

With few aged care beds joining the system – and home care delivering just five hours of direct care a week – retirement villages are set to become a ‘safe harbour’ for older Australians seeking care and support – a big problem for village...

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PALM LAKE RESORT: 47 years after launching, the Elliott family still leads from the front

With the age of residents in land lease communities rising – and the financial model incentivising them to stay – land lease operators are facing an ageing cohort seeking community and support services. Founded by Walter Elliott, Palm Lake...

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AUSMED: Workforce your biggest asset, cost and risk. So, learn different.

When the entire population is assessing, accepting or rejecting messaging the Facebook way, what is the likely success of traditional learning methods, asks Will Egan, CEO of Ausmed, as they innovate learning for 250,000 health care workers...

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MECWACARE: investing $20 million in digital transformation and generative AI

Three years ago, it emerged that 40% of aged care operators were still relying on paper-based systems. Fast forward and the use of real-time data monitoring and predictive data analytics is still relatively limited – mecwacare is one operator that...

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