Aged Care

SATURDAY means business: Why Whiddon is done waiting for the system to change

Apr 24 2025 Updated 3 hours ago

Lauren Broomham

1 min read

Frustrated with red tape, workforce shortages and broken regional services, Whiddon CEO Chris Mamarelis (pictured) is taking matters into his own hands with a bold new initiative to reform health and aged care – from the ground up.

What’s the Collaborative Health Initiative – and why is Government already paying attention?

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Scape moving to acquire Aveo is good news – here is why

It was revealed in the Financial Review this week that Australian student accommodation giant Scape is now the exclusive bidder to buy Aveo, for an indicated $3.5B. They will bring fresh thinking to the retirement village sector. Take a step back...

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Chris Baynes

15 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Scape reportedly in exclusive talks to buy retirement village operator Aveo

The student accommodation provider, working with Macquarie Capital and Deutsche Bank on due diligence, is likely to call on the two banks and Scape’s capital partners to buy the $3 billion plus business owned by Brookfield. Brookfield put Aveo up...

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Ian Horswill

15 Apr 2025

Opinion

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: aged care on a collision course with care minutes

With just 12 months until care minutes are linked with funding, residential aged care providers are facing a lose-lose scenario: lose funding if they understaff but fail to be compensated if they exceed targets, says Shalain Singh, Managing Director and CEO of Arrow Advisory Group.

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Lauren Broomham

17 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Exclusive: Chiou See Anderson sells her two retirement villages

The 123-unit Elements @Springwood, in Queensland’s City of Logan, and the 45-unit Elements @Con Noi Carindale, 13km southeast of Brisbane’s GPO, have a new owner. Chiou See has told us the NSW-based Hunter Group has bought her two villages; they...

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Ian Horswill

14 Apr 2025

SATURDAY means business: on Friday, Issue 97 explores solutions to the care crisis

There is nothing like a SATURDAY subscription magazine in the residential and home care and retirement living sectors. Fortnightly SATURDAY examines the issues that are affecting the delivery of care for C-suite executives. On Friday at 12pm, Issue...

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025

Community Living

Retirement and Community Living

“This is a cruel cash grab at the worst possible time”

The Retirement Living Council (RLC) is calling on Cairns Regional Council to abandon its “cash grab plan” to increase rates for retirement village residents during the cost-of-living crisis, with fixed income pensioners the worst hit if the move...

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025

Community Living

Adrian Puljich, GemLife CEO, a disrupter in land lease communities: LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 presentation videos now available on YouTube

The private operator spoke about the “insatiable demand” for affordable and a premium product and how he is continually reviewing his product, with lifestyle resorts to be launched in South Australia and the Northern Territory. He also spoke...

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Anglicare Sydney lodges State Significant Development plan to redevelop part of its 43ha site in Castle Hill

The Concept Master Plan & Stage 1 DA for part of the site, 34km northwest of Sydney’s CBD, which currently houses seven retirement villages and five residential aged care homes, has been lodged with the NSW Government. Laurie Boxwell...

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025