Reform

When 642 providers have become the new normal and consolidation still accelerating, the question boards should be asking isn’t whether consolidation can be stopped. It’s whether the leadership inside their organisation is built for what comes next.

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.

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.

Wayne Belcher OAM gives aged care boards a choice: commit to growth as part of the solution, or accept that your organisation will slowly fade out. There is no comfortable middle ground anymore.

Wayne Belcher OAM has done the numbers. The sector needs a new nursing home every two days for the next 20 years – and most providers are too busy surviving to address it.