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Which peak body: ACSA or LASA – the discussion continues
May 17, 2012 Village Life with Chris Baynes
As reported over the past two weeks, the creation of LEADING AGED SERVICES Australia (LASA) as an alternative peak body to ACSA has placed a problem on the ageing sector’s table. Talk in the sector is: where to from here? Read Story
Funding entry to aged care up in the air again
May 17, 2012 Village Life with Chris Baynes
Funding entry to aged care up in the air again – village and care operators in the dark. Australian Pension Bonds have hit a wall it seems. The government feed to the media on its view of bonds and the recommendatios in the Productivity Report is set out in the Fairfax press: Read Story
Home Care expansion and new User Pays in aged care explained
May 17, 2012 Village Life with Chris Baynes
Commencing in 26 months (July 2014), the government is stripping $320M a year out of high care bricks and mortar to give ageing Australians the choice to have care delivered into their homes.The $320M is largely coming from attacking ACFI ‘rorts’ in high care facilities. Read Story
Is this the longest running dispute in retirement village history?
May 17, 2012 Village Life with Chris Baynes
Since 2006 two unrelated sons of former residents of Urimbirra Retirement Village (Hervey Bay) have been demanding the operator, Millie Phillips’ Milstern Retirement Living, to pay them the value of their late parents’ ILU’s. Read Story
Reverse Mortgages: Leverage the equity in your house
May 04, 2012 Village Life with Chris Baynes
Reverse mortgages and debt free equity release products can give you access to your wealth now, but there are a few things you should know first. Read Story
Old Dogs Training - New Tricks?
May 04, 2012 Technology Update with Chris Dixon
Ben Hall, a final-year law and business management student at the University of Queensland, has set up Old Dogs Training to teach over-50s how to use computers, digital cameras, mobile phones and more. Read Story
Vitamin E for Vim and Vigour
May 04, 2012 Village Life with Chris Baynes
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin with antioxidant properties, meaning it can protect tissue from damage caused by free radicals that harm cells, tissues and organs. Read Story
Use It at 55 or Lose it at 75
May 04, 2012 Village Life with Chris Baynes
Keeping Your Fitness as You Age - physical inactivity is responsible for up to nine percent of the total years of life lost through premature death from heart disease, colon cancer, stroke and diabetes. Astonishingly, 85 percent of those over 55 don't exercise regularly. Yet, exercise is absolutely essentially to preserve our health, mobility and general wellbeing. Read Story
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