Articles by Indra Arunachalam

Indra is the Chief Operating Officer at integratedliving Australia; a community business delivering community care services in regional NSW and Queensland. She is a CPA with over 15 years’ senior management experience in the aged care sector and has undertaken research on mergers in the sector at the University of New England.

Strategy & Risk

An Examination of Merger Success Factors

The major part of this article was drawn from the Masters in Business Research (with Honours) research dissertation of Indra Arunachalam, University of New England (2012). On the 20th of April 2012, the government announced its intend to deliver greater choice and better care to older Australians by unveiling a major aged care reform package. The Living Longer, Living Better Plan was in response to key issues, such as, the changing expectations and longer life expectancy of an ageing population, the expected increase in aged care costs and future workforce shortages.