Topic - Aged Care

111-bed aged care facility planned for south Sydney gets funding boost

Apr 09 2019 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

1 min read

Hall & Prior’s facility in Windsor Park, WA.

The new three-storey Georges Estate Health and Aged Care facility will be constructed in Penshurst – 30 minutes south of the CBD – and is supported by a $6.3 million annual funding commitment by the Federal Government.

It will be operated by WA family-owned aged care provider, Hall & Prior, which currently runs 24 residential aged care homes, in-home and community care programmes across WA and NSW.

The Georges Estate facility also includes a wing offering secure care for residents living with dementia and will act as a hub for the delivery of home care services to older Australians in the surrounding area.

Construction is expected to be completed in 2020.

Exclusive: ACCPA CEO reveals new name for peak body at National Conference

Addressing the audience in Adelaide this morning, CEO Tom Symondson has announced that the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) wants to take on a new name – Ageing Australia. In an exclusive interview prior to the National...

Click here

Lauren Broomham

24 Oct 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

In just six weeks as Eureka CEO Simon Owen wants to raise $70M to buy seven retirement communities

The man, who transformed two small village operators into the then $1.65 billion ASX-listed Ingenia Communities, is setting a cracking pace in his new role in charge of Australia’s only pure-play seniors rental business. “I’m excited to announce...

Click here

Ian Horswill

25 Oct 2024

Opinion

No Minister: aged care reforms won’t solve the capital crisis facing the sector

The shortfall in new aged care beds that need to be developed over the next five years was a dominant theme at the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA)’s National Conference yesterday and there are no easy fixes despite the...

Click here

Lauren Broomham

24 Oct 2024

Opinion

Older Australians aren’t fools and are not rusted on to the ABC anymore

Adele Ferguson and ABC 7.30 spent months building their ‘activist’ critique of the retirement villages sector, broadcast across approximately 10 days, from 30 September to 9 October. Few listened and fewer cared. Despite harnessing ABC TV, radio...

Click here

Chris Baynes

22 Oct 2024

ACCPA calls for six to 12-month transition period for Govt’s aged care reforms

Ahead of the Senate Inquiry report into the Aged Care Bill 2024 being tabled later today (31 October 2024), the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) is calling for realistic timelines to implement a raft of reforms as part of the...

Click here

In latest SATURDAY magazine: Mable’s role in Australia’s aged care system cemented with 650 new recruits a week

Mable’s offer of choice, flexibility and control for workers - and choice of support for customers - is making the peer-to-peer support worker platform a lynchpin of Australia’s aged care ecosystem. What role is the platform increasingly playing...

Click here

Senate Inquiry hearings wrap up, with report due Thursday

Hearings for the Senate Inquiry into the Aged Care Bill 2024 wrapped up last week, with Grant Corderoy, Senior Partner with aged care accountants StewartBrown, among the final speakers. Grant addressed the “critical shortage” of aged care beds, with...

Click here

Desperate Mercy Community offers $10K and flights home to fill aged care vacancies in QLD city

In a desperate bid to attract staff, Not For Profit Mercy Community, which expects to have 120 aged care vacancies shortly, is offering experienced applications a $5,000 sign-on bonus, three flights home a year, as well as three months’ free accommodation.

Click here

Caroline Egan

30 Oct 2024