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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

14 hours ago

Opinion

Will 2025 be the year the village sector realises it is no longer independent living?

Victoria has just released its new retirement village regulations, including for the first time acknowledgement of home care as a village service – operators beware.

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Chris Baynes

16 Dec 2024

Government Policy

RLC facts win the day in ABC 7.30 driven Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) review of retirement villages

Last Wednesday (10 December), the meeting of COAG was swayed that the States should stay responsible for retirement villages and new Federal regulations were not required.

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Chris Baynes

16 Dec 2024

Opinion

Older, cashed up and ambitious

It looks like the leaders of the retirement village sector of the Noughties are reforming the band, with the formal return of Peter Inge (pictured in 2006) back in the village sector as a serious portfolio builder. Pre the GFC only the private...

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Chris Baynes

10 Dec 2024

Development

Uniting NSW.ACT Westmead village expands with 153 ILUs in Stage 2

Stage 2 of Park Meadows by Uniting NSW. ACT in Westmead, 27km west of the Sydney CBD, has officially commenced, marked by a sod turning event at the site recently. The new village, set for completion in 2027, includes 153 independent living units, an...

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FIVE GOOD FRIENDS: Day One digital home care strategy rewarded

It took two digital natives foreign to home care to create the sector’s first human digital solution that has now delivered 1.7 million hours of direct care from a standing start eight years ago. When Nathan Betteridge and Simon Lockyer...

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AUSMED: Workforce your biggest asset, cost and risk. So, learn different.

When the entire population is assessing, accepting or rejecting messaging the Facebook way, what is the likely success of traditional learning methods, asks Will Egan, CEO of Ausmed, as they innovate learning for 250,000 health care workers...

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Chris Baynes

06 Dec 2024

Opinion

Regulators and village staff have a message for Operators: ‘Training – it’s important’

In NSW, on the accepted recommendations of the Greiner Inquiry, village staff training was enshrined as a cornerstone requirement in the new (2019) Rules of Conduct. But operators are ignoring it. Our research says just 30% of villages (and...

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Chris Baynes

02 Dec 2024

Out of the Ordinary

2024 DCM Institute VILLAGE SUMMIT tops 630 attendees across five cities

Attendance at the VILLAGE SUMMIT has jumped 32% in 2024, from 470 last November to 630 this year. The third professional development day for the year for Institute Members plus other village leaders, the program is being embraced by more than 150...

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Chris Baynes

26 Nov 2024

Opinion

The legislation that will change the retirement village sector forever

The new Aged Care Act was passed in Parliament yesterday and with it Anika Wells announced 83,000 additional Home Care packages. These actions will cement care into retirement villages. Independent living will gradually disappear as a value...

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Chris Baynes

26 Nov 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

Opinion

These sector CEOs provide a masterclass in professional development and generosity

It was fascinating last week to learn the extent leaders in our sector have invested in their own education. We were in Adelaide and then Perth at the DCM Institute VILLAGE SUMMITS. In each city two leaders gave their time to share their definition...

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Chris Baynes

18 Nov 2024

Opinion

StewartBrown survey and Code of Conduct essential for the retirement living sector

This week two important initiatives were announced. First StewartBrown announced it is launching an independent survey of retirement living operators, and the second is the Retirement Living Council is reducing the Code of Conduct fees, determined...

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Chris Baynes

10 Nov 2024