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Laurie and Michael Kresner’s Advantged Care has made a planning submission for a $54 million / 300 bed care facility in Edensor Park, outer western Sydney. This will add to their current construction of 132 beds at Prestons and 112 beds at Blacktown, a total of 544 beds in development. The family are traditional residential subdivision developers. They entered the aged care sector in 2001 and have three existing facilities.

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Sydney’s ARV has purchased 5.88 ha for $16.6 million in Minto, south-western Sydney. The potential for the site is up to 200 retirement living units, including affordable rentals as part of their mission, and a 100 bed care facility.

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A new study looking at the relationship between physical exercise and prevention of cardiovascular disease and death in people aged 65 and older has provided much needed evidence that even a small amount of exercise can protect against death.

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How should you communicate with a person who has dementia? A diagnosis of dementia is almost always a life changing shock – not just for the person who has been diagnosed but for family, friends and colleagues. There are many different forms of dementia – the best known being Alzheimer’s disease – and there is a surprising amount of variation in the way people experience the disease and the way symptoms can progress. It’s not all doom and gloom from the day of diagnosis, as people like former nurse, Kate Swaffer, continues to demonstrate. Six years ago, at the age of 49, Kate was diagnosed with a rare form of fronto-temporal ‘younger onset’ dementia and was advised to stop working and get her affairs in order. After initially crying for six weeks straight, Kate decided to tackle the diagnosis head on, signing up to do more study, starting a blog and becoming an outspoken activist for community understanding and acceptance of the disease. As someone who lives with dementia, she is able to provide important insights into the perceptions and feelings of someone with dementia and importantly, how best to engage and communicate with them.

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With an election looming, the Property Council of Australia (PCA) is stepping up its lobbying of the federal government to make changes to the age pension means test, to remove the current disincentive for older people to downsize from the family home.

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