RetireAustralia, which owns and operates 28 retirement villages, is now providing a continuum of care and pushing into providing aged care.
The SOURCE reported in June last year, aside from providing home care services in 20 of its villages, it wanted to build boutique 10-12 bed higher care environments with Registered Nurse oversight and options for palliative care.
It is now a registered home care provider.
CEO Dr Brett Robinson told the Property Council’s NSW Retirement Outlook in Sydney last Thursday about its new retirement village Verge at Burleigh on QLD’s Gold Coast, where Stage One has been completed, with Stage Two scheduled for the middle of the year and Stage Three in February 2024.
Stage Three will be a care hub.
“It is effectively a mini RAC (residential aged care) with 10-12 beds, which will provide a service where people can have respite from a stay in hospital.
“Effectively what this is a safety net for the whole village, where care staff will live and breathe. I can be sitting in my fifth storey apartment overlooking the golf course, knowing I can receive all the care I want in my home until the day I die.”
Brett said it was a “new business” and he admitted he was “anxious” about how to deliver a surplus in aged care.
