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Meet the sector’s innovators in the final issue of SATURDAY magazine for 2024

Every day, leaders across the retirement living, land lease and aged care sectors are on the frontline, driving new approaches and solving the challenges facing the sector – so what are the names you need to know? In the final issue of SATURDAY...

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Lauren Broomham
03 Dec 2024
Chris Baynes

New Aged Care Act – and Plan B co-contribution funding – was achieved just three years to the day from when the sector was called to mobilise

In November 2021, the editorial team here at DCM/The SOURCE sat down and discussed what is the future for aged care. To be blunt, there was no optimism in the sector as operators racked up month after month of financial losses.

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Chris Baynes
22 Nov 2024
News & Issues

StewartBrown Partner Stuart Hutcheon to address ACCPA about Retirement Living Performance Report

The highly impressive initial response by the sector to the news the widely respected aged https://www. linkedin. com/in/david-gallery-9a887b13/care benchmarking accountant is providing an independent survey and report for the advocacy of the...

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Ian Horswill
18 Nov 2024
News & Issues

Retirement Living Council to significantly cut price of Code of Conduct subscription to support operator sign up

Executive Director Daniel Gannon said it is time to engage all village operators to participate – it is simply not good enough that less than 40% of retirement villages are subscribers to its Code of Conduct launched six years ago. He states that...

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Ian Horswill
10 Nov 2024
In the Headlines

Retirement Living Council says ABC 7.30 retirement living coverage is activist journalism

The Retirement Living Council has told the ABC its “campaign” against the retirement living sector is clearly in breach of the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s Editorial Policies, Principles and Standards, particularly in relation to impartiality...

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Ian Horswill
22 Oct 2024
News & Issues

Look Adele Ferguson: Here’s five people of 249,996 people you did not interview who have been in retirement living for 130 years combined

ABC 7.30 featured four residents in its agenda-driven stories on retirement villages to claim there are “systemic” issues in the retirement living sector and the “Fee structure creates incentive to churn residents’. That left 249,996...

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Ian Horswill
21 Oct 2024
Out of the Ordinary

In this issue of SATURDAY: How to turn a retirement village into private aged care

Read how in an exclusive interview with LDK Seniors’ Living CEO Byron Cannon only in this issue of SATURDAY subscription magazine. Click here to subscribe

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Ian Horswill
14 Oct 2024
News & Headlines

Main changes to the new Aged Care Act at a glance

The reforms to the Aged Care Act are for future residents. The Opposition secured grandfathering arrangements, to ensure that every Australian who has already commenced their journey of ageing within the Commonwealth system will not be impacted by...

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Ian Horswill
12 Sep 2024
News & Headlines

The concessions the Govt made to the Opposition to see the new Aged Care Act tabled in Parliament

Shadow Minister for Aged Care, Senator Anne Ruston wanted to make it clear “this is Labor’s package of reforms” for the aged care sector. The Opposition though has achieved significant changes as it negotiated with the Government. These include:

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Ian Horswill
12 Sep 2024
News & Issues

Ryman Healthcare Co-Founder Kevin Hickman passes

Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, the 74-year-old former police detective-turned-rich-lister was known for co-founding Ryman Healthcare in 1984, with the message that it had to be good enough for his own mum. He was involved in Ryman Healthcare...

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Ian Horswill
27 Aug 2024
News & Issues

Only in SATURDAY: Denmark, France and Silverchain point to the ageing future

Over the next three years the number of people turning 80 each year will jump by 40%, but the aged care inn is full, a real challenge for villages. But there are support and accommodation solutions. In this latest issue of SATURDAY we review why...

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Ian Horswill
06 Aug 2024
In the Headlines

Fact Check of ABC 7.30’s report into Lifestyle Communities

The taxpayer-funded broadcaster has its own Fact Check team determining the accuracy of claims by politicians, public figures, advocacy groups and institutions. It’s a shame it did not check on its story on ABC 7.30: “How an idyllic retirement...

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Ian Horswill
23 Jul 2024
News & Headlines

Only in SATURDAY: increase your prices by 30%? The hard choices facing housing developers

Read more in this week’s issue of SATURDAY – subscribe here for just $125 for 12 months until EOFY

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Lauren Broomham
18 Jun 2024
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