Leadership

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tim Lawless says Australia’s ageing population is creating unprecedented demand for retirement living – but delivering enough homes may be the sector’s greatest challenge.

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.

Full villages, growing waitlists, and residents who can’t access aged care. The sector’s top operators are navigating simultaneous pressure on every front — and the leaders who’ll survive it are the ones willing to have honest conversations now.

More than 315 home care leaders have spoken. Their systems still don’t work. New Enkindle data shows 64% of providers can’t rely on technology to run basic operations under Support at Home.

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.

From 1 May 2026, significant changes to Victoria’s retirement village legislation have come into effect. Is your capital plan ready to implement the changes? Here’s what you need to know.