Author name: David Waldie

David Waldie is the managing Director of Eev.Life.

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Ageing Asia Conference | “Singapore, the little island that could”

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Singapore’s Four-Part Aged Care Model: What Australia Can Learn
Australia’s aged care system primarily operates on a two-part model—home care and residential care. However, during a recent visit to Singapore as part of the Austrade delegation to the World Ageing Festival, Eevi’s Managing Director David Waldie discovered how Singapore’s comprehensive four-part approach offers valuable lessons for Australia’s aged care strategy.
Singapore’s integrated care model includes community centre care and dementia day care alongside the traditional home and residential care services. St Lukes Elder Care demonstrated how their Active Ageing Centres (AACs) provide preventative health services to seniors aged 60+ across 32 locations, while their specialized dementia day care facilities offer crucial respite for carers.
With Australia facing a “dementia tsunami,” could implementing similar day care programs help reduce residential care admissions and improve quality of life for both dementia patients and their carers?
Read David’s full insights on Singapore’s innovative approach to aged care and the potential implications for Australia’s aged care future.

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Leader’s Summit 2025 | “I declare this Summit, the Best Ever”

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It has been a long time since I have re-watched sessions from a conference weeks later. But I found myself doing that after Chris Baynes and DCM Institute’s excellent Leaders Summit in Sydney last week.
The Summit brought together C-suite executives from across senior housing and aged care—the only forum where retirement living, residential aged care and home care converge. This year, DCM expanded the conversation by including remote patient monitoring specialists from insurers Amplar Health and BUPA.
Key speakers highlighted the scope of challenges facing our sector: Australia needs 10,000 new aged care beds annually for the next decade to accommodate our aging population with increasing co-morbidities. Currently, we’re building just 1-2,000 per year, with the economics of aged care discouraging further investment.
The consequences? Chris Baynes predicts 100,000 retirement village units will become de facto aged care beds within 10 years as higher-care residents “hold” these units with nowhere else to go.

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