Retirement living

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.

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.

Levande has marked construction milestones on two retirement living developments in Brighton East and Bentleigh East that will deliver more than 450 new homes in Melbourne’s south-east.

Levande has acquired a rare 2.3-hectare site in Bulimba, Brisbane, to deliver a new, purpose-built retirement living community, reflecting rising demand for amenity-rich, inner-urban retirement housing.

Retirement villages are becoming the hidden bottleneck in Australia’s seniors living system. With planning delays stretching beyond two years, tens of thousands of retirees could be left without housing options by 2030.