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Lauren
Broomham

LEADERS SUMMIT 2025: ‘wellness’ and reablement should be key to future strategy for sector

Australia is already struggling to meet growing demand for care and support and this will only worsen with the ageing population - the focus must shift to reaching people before they require hospital-level treatment with much of the responsibility falling on aged care and retirement living operators.

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Lauren Broomham

20 Mar 2025

Opinion

LEADERS SUMMIT 2025: Sector must take the lead on ageing strategy, warns Chris Baynes

The Government is not equipped to deliver a clear-cut plan to address the doubling of demand over the fixed supply of home care and residential aged care – and the sector will need to fill this leadership gap, the DCM Group CEO has advised over 570 executives at the 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT.

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Lauren Broomham

20 Mar 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Respect makes first foray into WA aged care operations

After over 40 years of ownership, Amana Living is set to hand over its aged care home, retirement village and home care services in the regional town, around 593km west of Perth, to the rural and regional specialist – marking the acquisition of Respect’s 28th aged care facility.

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Lauren Broomham

20 Mar 2025

Government Policy

Proposed liquidity requirements likely to increase cost of capital and threaten new builds, warns StewartBrown

Residential aged care operators would need to retain more than double the amount of liquid assets that they already hold under the proposed new Financial and Prudential Standards – according to new modelling released by the aged care accountants this afternoon (Friday 14 March).

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Private versus Not For Profit: which has the smallest gender gap?

Meet the Top 10 largest aged care operators with the smallest gender pay gaps – and most are led by men. Half of Australia’s largest aged care providers with the lowest gender pay gaps are For Profit operators – and eight of the 10 are led by...

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Opinion: aged care is a $30B industry. Why isn’t it treated like it?

New data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has underlined the size and scale of the sector. Yet, operators are rarely afforded a say in Government policy about their future. Is it time for the sector to make its own destiny? Poring...

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Clinical care or bust? The hard choice facing home care providers

80% of home care services are non-clinical – but Support at Home will see Government cash re-directed towards nursing care and allied health. Are your services and workforce ready for this seismic shift? The new Support at Home Program is...

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The $56K wage difference: the benefits of scale

With labour the biggest expense for residential aged care operators, newly released 2023-24 data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) indicates that when it comes to saving on wage costs, bigger is better. Smaller residential aged care...

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Top 25 largest residential aged care operators’ pay revealed

New data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed what the country’s largest employers are paying their staff – including their remuneration by pay quartile. How much do our major residential aged care providers pay to their...

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Top 20 largest home care operators’ pay revealed

How much is paid by who, and is it balanced across genders? The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has published the latest gender pay gaps for over 7,800 employers and 1,700 corporate groups – including their total average remuneration and...

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Largest retirement village operators’ pay revealed

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has published its latest set of Australian private sector employer gender gaps – releasing for the first time each employers’ average remuneration by pay quartile. So, how do Australia’s biggest...

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The regional aged care operator paying $25K above the average for staff

Not For Profit Warrigal is now seeing thousands more visits to its careers website every month – but the challenge of finding enough nurses, particularly in regional areas, continues to plague operators and their bottom lines. Aged care providers...

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Why $17.7 billion in wage rises won’t ‘sandbag’ against aged care demand

The Federal Government has now committed a huge $17.7 billion to pay increases for aged care workers and nurses. The sector has a close to zero per cent gender pay gap according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). But this won’t be enough...

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Lauren Broomham

14 Mar 2025