Over 100 providers take part in Shared Care workshops
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has held three online workshops this month with Support at Home providers on the proposed 2026 trial.
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Over 100 providers take part in Shared Care workshops
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has held three online workshops this month with Support at Home providers on the proposed 2026 trial.
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Productivity disaster for retirement village development
The retirement living sector should be going gangbusters. The population is ageing rapidly and the need for housing is acute. But new village construction is broken, along with the rest of the building industry.
Stop the hospital blame game – it’s time for aged care to put Plan T on the table
Health and aged care are not separate crises. They’re one system problem. Older people’s needs are joined up – it’s our funding and governance that are carved into silos.
Plan T: Transformation - co-located villages can solve hospital ‘bed crisis’ in 16 weeks
Here is our thinking: Australia’s 700 co-located retirement villages will have 6,560 village homes vacated each year, or 126 every week. Why doesn’t the sector turn each vacated home over to a human being currently stuck in hospital?
Australia’s running out of aged care beds – and out of time
Colliers’ new Residential Aged Care Market Report confirms what everyone in the sector has felt in their bones: Australia’s aged care system is on a collision course. The headline figure – 800 new residential places in 2024-25 – was already pitiable. Once Boxwell & Co corrected the Department’s data, the
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Illawarra aged care home evacuated due to fire
“There was a fire in a ceiling that was contained by the sprinkler system.”
From co-contributions to continuum: Tom Symondson on where aged care reform must go next
Aged care’s next test won’t be passing legislation – it will be tracking what actually happens when the new rules collide with real lives. Tom Symondson, CEO of peak body Ageing Australia, says the design intent behind Support at Home is...
AlayaCare acquires Nightingale Software to deepen its aged care footprint in ANZ
Aged, home and community care platform AlayaCare has acquired Nightingale Software, strengthening its position across Australia and New Zealand’s aged care, home care and disability sectors.
Regis Aged Care buys OC Health's two aged care homes for $350K per bed
The ASX-listed operator has entered into binding agreements to acquire family-owned OC Health's two remaining aged care homes for $45 million plus a $36 million liability for RADs. The purchase of Ocean Mist, in Torquay, a seaside town southwest of...
