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New SATURDAY issue: The two legal problems keeping Village Managers awake at night

At the DCM Institute’s professional development days and its annual VILLAGE SUMMIT, the legal sessions are always among the highest rated and top of the agenda is the risk facing village operators around residents ageing in place. With more...

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Lauren Broomham

21 hours ago

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Torrens Health expands into retirement living in Adelaide with seven NFP villages

The investment business behind nursing staffing agencies including YNA, Alpha Nursing and Human Management & Nursing Services, Torrens Medical and its Hospital in the Home service, has bought Life Care’s seven retirement villages in Adelaide...

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Lauren Broomham

22 hours ago

Aged Care

ACCPA calls for six to 12-month transition period for Govt’s aged care reforms

Ahead of the Senate Inquiry report into the Aged Care Bill 2024 being tabled later today (31 October 2024), the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) is calling for realistic timelines to implement a raft of reforms as part of the...

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Lauren Broomham

31 Oct 2024

Sector Moves & People

Cam Holland joins Amplar Health to lead its GP clinic rollout

Cam joined the executive team at Amplar Health this week as Hub Lead – Primary Care & Investments, working alongside its Chief Commercial Officer, Bev Smith, who came on board in June

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Lauren Broomham

30 Oct 2024

Opinion

“There is no dignity”: there will be more headlines like this about home care

With the waitlist for Home Care Packages jumping by 8,000 people in just four months, the tragic case of Cyril Tooze will be the first of many stories to grab the front page of the news organisations. Last week, The Australian dedicated a large...

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Executive spotlight

Over 3,000 operators provide retirement living, aged care and support in the home to more than 1.5 million older Australians. 360,000 staff and 100,000 suppliers are engaged every day. It’s a $30 billion a year sector delivering vital services for...

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Opinion: it’s time for aged care to crack the whip

The aged care sector is a multi-billion-dollar industry that is providing an essential service – yet operators remain at the mercy of Government. Governments at all levels need the sector to provide care for older Australians – we say operators...

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Getting ‘match fit’ for the future: why ACCPA wants to change its name

ACCPA is out; Ageing Australia is in as CEO Tom Symondson leads the peak body in a new direction post-Aged Care Taskforce. Two years after its rebirth as the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA), the peak body is seizing the...

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“It’s been a hard road”: where to next for Tom Symondson?

The CEO says he may have aged 10 years in the last six months trying to get the new Aged Care Act Bill into Parliament – but his work is far from complete. With the newly hard-won respect of Government, Aged and Community Care Providers...

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Would you invest in a business with a -0.41% return?

Houston, we have a problem: with three years until new funding rolls into the sector, the residential aged care sector needs to be advocating now for help to deliver the beds the Government says are so desperately needed. We recently attended the...

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Survival of the fittest

Home care losses continue; no new money from Taskforce With the current returns in home care not financially sustainable, the Government yanks out new income from Taskforce recommendations. Recently, we attended StewartBrown’s 2024 Aged Care...

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With 2,000 new worker applications a week, Mable is increasingly what carers and consumers want

Better pay, better hours, better value: is it any wonder that the peer-to-peer support worker platform is thriving a decade on from its launch? With an enviable 2,000 potential new workers every week, Mable’s offer of choice, flexibility and...

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The gold rush grows with land lease now 20% of new US investment into Australia

Land lease communities are now a $13.5 billion investment – and growing – despite softening returns. Demand for land lease communities is forecast to continue to exceed supply for years to come – and investors are getting in now to profit from...

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Lauren Broomham

25 Oct 2024