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One in four home care services failed to comply with Quality Standards: ACQSC

Compliance rates for home care providers improved 8 percentage points in Q1 2024-25, with 73% of assessments finding the provider complied with all 8 of the Aged Care Quality Standards.

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Caroline Egan

21 Jan 2025

Opinion

Today, with 78-year-old President Trump in America and 30-something Adrian Puljich and Patrick Abolakian in Australia, each stand out – but we are in better hands

What a day. The US and the world looks to Trump to make America (and the world?) great with his inauguration and his deportation of immigrants. Here in Australia’s seniors living sector, we have two sons of immigrants leading the way to support...

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Chris Baynes

21 Jan 2025

Development

Stockland announce third new land lease community in Queensland in four weeks

The property developer’s latest development is on one of the four parcels of land, all with development approvals, which came as part of the $210 million deal Stockland paid the Puljich family’s Living Gems in July 2023. Stockland said at the...

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Ian Horswill

20 Jan 2025

Development

GreenFort’s Liven Communities’ third and fourth projects revealed as it nears its 1200 homes target

In June last year the financial backers behind Reside Communities’ five luxury retirement villages, announced it was embarking on an $800 million seniors living land lease portfolio of 1200 homes. GreenFort and Gaw Capital said it had bought...

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Ian Horswill

20 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Homes operated by large For Profit providers have higher rates of compliance with Quality Standards

Aged care homes operated by large and For Profit providers have significantly higher rates of compliance with the Aged Care Quality Standards than their smaller Not For Profit counterparts, according to the newly-released Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s (ACQSC) Q1 2024-25 Sector Performance Report.

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Caroline Egan

20 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

Silverchain Group appoint Haydn Chrystal as Chair after Anne Skipper AM’s retirement

Australia’s leading provider of in-home health and aged care has announced its new Chair after the retirement of Anne Skipper AM who has chaired the business for more than 14 years. “It has been an incredible privilege to Chair first RDNS and...

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Ian Horswill

20 Jan 2025