Topic - Aged Care

ACT: historic homestead designated for aged care taken off the market

Jun 11 2018 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

1 min read

The new wave of Consumer Advocacy: Just a month ago, the plan to turn the site of the Gold Creek Homestead at Gungahlin, 16km from the Canberra CBD, into a 160-bed aged care facility and 30 supportive housing beds was given the tick of approval by the National Trust as long as the homestead was retained.

Now the Suburban Land Agency has removed it from sale to “provide more time to work towards a better balance of social and financial benefits for the ACT community”.

Are they concerned about further community backlash over the plan?

Janet Anderson out, new Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner in

The inaugural Commissioner of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, Janet Anderson PSM, will depart the role next month after six years in favour of a new face.

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Lauren Broomham

13 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Which aged care provider has been awarded a $136M contract to conduct assessments under new Single Assessment System?

The Department of Health and Aged Care has released details of contracts worth nearly $1.5 billion awarded to operators to conduct aged care assessments under the new Single Assessment System. The largest contract, worth more than $226 million, was...

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Caroline Egan

12 Dec 2024

Government Policy

Breaking news: Fed Govt slashes $2.5B off aged care with new payments in arrears for residential aged care from 1 July 2026

With the Federal Budget slipping further into deficit over the next four years, the Mid-Year Economic Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) 2024-25 has revealed the Albanese Government is looking to save on spending with aged care is in its sights. Presenting the...

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Lauren Broomham

18 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Two key Dept architects of the aged care reforms are moving to new jobs

Michael Lye, the Deputy Secretary, Ageing and Aged Care, and Nick Morgan, Assistant Secretary, Support at Home Reform, with the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) have new jobs in the public sector that will shift them away from aged care, only months before significant reforms are scheduled to be implemented.

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

New Aged Care Act – and Plan B co-contribution funding – was achieved just three years to the day from when the sector was called to mobilise

In November 2021, the editorial team here at DCM/The SOURCE sat down and discussed what is the future for aged care. To be blunt, there was no optimism in the sector as operators racked up month after month of financial losses.

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Chris Baynes

22 Nov 2024

In the Headlines

Retirement Living Council says ABC 7.30 retirement living coverage is activist journalism

The Retirement Living Council has told the ABC its “campaign” against the retirement living sector is clearly in breach of the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s Editorial Policies, Principles and Standards, particularly in relation to impartiality...

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Ian Horswill

22 Oct 2024

In the Headlines

$13.5B land lease community penetration rate now estimated 3% compared to 1.6% in 2021 with demand unsatisfied: Chadwick Property Valuers

The Retirement Living Council states 250,000 people live in retirement living; the Chadwick Land Lease Communities (LLC) Industry Report September 2024 estimates 135,000 people now live in the $13.5 billion land lease communities’ sector. “In...

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Ian Horswill

22 Oct 2024

In the Headlines

Lifestyle Communities aligns with a sporting club’s women’s side to put on its best face

Now the land lease operator, based in South Melbourne, has struck a partnership with another AFL club, Geelong Cats for the 2024 AFLW season

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Ian Horswill

16 Sep 2024