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The Arcare story is about yesterday. The bigger story is what’s next.
While the headlines have focused on allegations surrounding additional service fees via HELF, the more important question for boards and executives is whether the sector has fully understood what the new Aged Care Act is asking providers to become.
Aged care divided cannot score its goals – part 3: exhaustion, loss of MVPs and when risk is the best strategy
Aged care’s greatest loss may not be funding or capacity — it may be the experienced leaders walking away. As reform fatigue deepens, Juniper Care CEO Russell Bricknell warns that exhaustion is driving talent from the sector and exposing the limits of an increasingly risk-averse system. From dignity of risk to lessons from Europe, he outlines why a fundamental shift in thinking may be needed to secure aged care’s future.
Care burnout is a systems problem, not a personal one
Registered nurse Jo Russell spent a decade trapped in a cycle of care burnout. Her experience highlights the trap that many high-performing workers face – and why it’s costing providers.
Aged care divided cannot score its goals – part 2: exhaustion and playing by the rules ending in penalties
The promise of aged care reform was better care, stronger safeguards and a more sustainable future. But nine months into the new regulatory landscape, many providers say the cost of compliance is draining resources, exhausting teams and making growth harder to achieve. In this candid interview, Juniper CEO Russell Bricknell reflects on the realities of reform, the challenge of building new capacity, and why long-term solutions remain trapped by short-term decision-making.
Your clients own the house. They can’t fund the care.
Dianne Shepherd has spent 20 years watching older Australians run out of cash while sitting on million-dollar homes. She says Support at Home doesn’t close the funding gap and that aged care providers are building care plans on assumptions that won’t hold.
Support at Home is failing regional Australia – one hour at a time
The top home care package funds 20 hours a week. Advanced dementia needs round-the-clock supervision. What happens in the remaining 148 hours? Rosie Fitzgerald can tell you.
Ambulances on ramps and older Australians on waitlists: Daniel Gannon wants governments to connect the dots
Retirement villages aren’t a lifestyle product: they’re health infrastructure. Daniel Gannon makes the case that without planning reform and supply investment, the pipeline crisis feeding hospital strain and aged care pressure will only deepen.
Aged care divided cannot score its goals – part 1: exhaustion and the speaking out tightrope
When public funding shapes what you can say, honest critique becomes a calculated risk. Russell Bricknell, CEO of Juniper Care, names the structural forces driving provider silence – and the viability crisis quietly narrowing who aged care can afford to serve.
‘It takes a village within the village’: how retirement communities are rethinking dementia
HammondCare’s Marie Alford shares what retirement village operators should be doing now to support residents living with dementia – from wayfinding to wellbeing coordinators to community partnerships.
Why a falling job offer rate is Lutheran Services’ biggest workforce win
With registered nurse supply a structural problem and care minutes accountability locked in, Lutheran Services’ Transition to Practice Program offers a replicable model for providers tired of losing ground to the external recruitment market.
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