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