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✓ Key points Mornington Peninsula: Council reverses planned home care exit CHSP: Services retained until June 2029 Meals on Wheels: 50-year service will continue Funding: Council warns additional investment still needed A Victorian Council planning to exit home care next year has voted to retain the service – but says more Government funding will be needed. Nearly four months ago, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council announced it would stop delivering Commonwealth-funded from 30 June 2027.

A render of the proposed aged care home ✓ Key points Arcare: Plans $21 million Geelong aged care home Lovely Banks: New facility will deliver 106 beds Expansion: Arcare adding 500-plus beds this year Pipeline: More aged care developments planned nationally The private operator, which opened its 63rd aged care home earlier this month, now has a new $21 million facility on exhibition.

✓ Key points $150.6M: Raised in two years $123.8M: Ingenia portfolio acquisition 5,492 sites: Across 70 communities $666M: Assets under management Two equity raisings have brought in $150.6 million in less than two years, alongside new bank debt and Eureka Group Holdings’ first wholesale fund. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Simon Owen has been busy assembling the capital to turn Eureka Group Holdings into a larger affordable housing operator. Do you subscribe to SATURDAY?

An artist’s impression of a proposed street in the Ravenswood development ✓ Key points 26ha: Aspen's Ravenswood site 200+ homes: Over-50s village planned 7-1 vote: Council defers decision WA: Aspen builds land lease pipeline Aspen Group’s next move in Western Australia has become a little more complicated. Residents are opposing plans for an over-50s lifestyle village at Ravenswood, 88km south of Perth, on a 26ha site the ASX-listed affordable housing group bought in February 2025.

Living Gems is an active land lease community developer and operator ✓ Key points 203 homes: Living Gems targets Mackay New market: Blacks Beach proposal 141 homes: Tamborine plan refused Court: Living Gems appeals One path takes the Puljich family’s land lease business into a new Queensland market. The other leads directly to court. Living Gems has lodged plans for a 203-home over-50s community at Lot 944 Bondi Road, Blacks Beach, on Mackay’s Northern Beaches, 803km north of Brisbane.

✓ Key points Back@Home: Virtual care targets earlier hospital discharge Older Australians: Back pain admissions three times higher Virtual care: States expand hospital-at-home models Aged care: Amplar trials virtual nursing nationally A $45 million research project is testing a different approach to hospital care for older Australians.

From left to right: Lewis Land's Michael Long, Tom Lewis-Millar, Shay Lewis, Marnie Lewis-Millar, Bruce Millar and Trent Kelly ✓ Key points $130M+: Lewis Land enters land lease 135 homes: Sovereign Rise underway 60 homes: First stage 2027: First residents expected The first stage at Sovereign Rise will deliver 60 homes, with residents expected in late 2027.

✓ Key points Government homes: Residents had fewer unplanned hospitalisations Regional aged care: Hospitalisation risk up to 35% lower Not For Profits: Residents had lower mortality risk Aged care ownership: Researchers urge ongoing monitoring A study of more than 200,000 aged care residents has uncovered significant differences in hospital admissions between ownership types.

Bryan Dorman (pictured right) ✓ Key points Backed by: The Dorman family First home: 131 beds in Sandringham Growth target: Five homes by 2031 Longer term: 10 homes by 2034-35 Bryan Dorman stepped away from the Regis Aged Care board less than two years ago. Now he is building again. The Regis Aged Care co-founder and his family have launched new residential aged care provider Faro Healthcare, with an ambitious greenfield development pipeline.

Tim Hicks addresses the Senate inquiry hearing on Tuesday, 22 September ✓ Key points Unspent funds: Use them to top up care AT-HM: Link funding to package levels Service approvals: Remove barriers to needed care HammondCare: Retain unused funds for six months The money is there, but some older Australians still cannot get the care they need.