Aged Care

Aged care operator Superior Care to refuse new residents with specialised dementia needs

The family-owned operator, which operates aged care homes in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, has revealed it will no longer accept residents living with dementia who have special care needs.

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Why residential aged care operators’ profits will rise: StewartBrown

In the July to September 2024 quarter, residential aged care providers were preparing their rosters for higher care minute targets, due to take effect on 1 October. However, with Government funding for the higher staff bill not kicking in until the targets took effect, providers’ earnings took a hit, according to StewartBrown’s Aged Care Financial Performance Survey Report for the period.

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Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson replaced by Liz Hefren-Webb

On 20 January 2025, Janet Anderson PSM, former Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner passed the baton to the new cop on the beat, former deputy secretary of social policy with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Liz Hefren-Webb.

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ACCPA to RIP as Ageing Australia is born on 30 January

Three months after The Weekly SOURCE’s Editor Lauren Broomham broke the story that the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) was changing its name to Ageing Australia, we can now report the peak body name change will take effect at the end of this month.

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Homes operated by large For Profit providers have higher rates of compliance with Quality Standards

Aged care homes operated by large and For Profit providers have significantly higher rates of compliance with the Aged Care Quality Standards than their smaller Not For Profit counterparts, according to the newly-released Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s (ACQSC) Q1 2024-25 Sector Performance Report.

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20 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

Silverchain Group appoint Haydn Chrystal as Chair after Anne Skipper AM’s retirement

Australia’s leading provider of in-home health and aged care has announced its new Chair after the retirement of Anne Skipper AM who has chaired the business for more than 14 years. “It has been an incredible privilege to Chair first RDNS and...

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20 Jan 2025

11 aged care providers ‘named and shamed’ by the regulator for failing care minute targets

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has named 27 residential aged care homes and eleven providers who have been hit with ‘enforceable undertakings’ for failing to meet their care minute targets. Nine of the 27 homes listed are operated by Tricare.

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16 Jan 2025

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells promoted to Cabinet for role in “most significant reforms in aged care this century”

In recognition of her successful role in getting aged care reforms through parliament, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promoted the Minister for Aged Care Anika Wells to Cabinet as part of a pre-election reshuffle brought on by the departure of NDIS Minister Bill Shorten.

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16 Jan 2025

Government

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93 organisations funded to become CHSP providers for the first time

The Federal Government’s $100 million Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) Growth Funding 2024-25 grants have been allocated to 133 providers, including home care operator Five Good Friends, dementia specialists HammondCare, and ASX-listed...

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Regulatory changes, including Asset Management Plans, for retirement village operators in NSW

Major changes to the mandatory Asset Management Plan, the bane of life for all village managers, are planned by the NSW Government. Fair Trading wants stakeholders to have a say on the proposed changes. “The updates aim to improve transparency for...

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28 Jan 2025

600 residents from four villages seek rate cut from local council

There is unrest among seniors in Victoria’s Gippsland region, 135km east of Melbourne. 600 residents living in Benetas’ Dalkeith Heights Retirement Village Traralgon, the community-run Latrobe Valley Retirement Village Morwell, The Range...

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$5.2M over three years for pilot program for Retirement Living Council’s Shared Care concept

The concept, the brainchild of Cameron Holland, the former CEO of Ryman Healthcare Australia, is likely to happen. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced last month $5.2 million over three years from FY26 to initiate a pilot program that will “allow...

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Opinion

Is aged care ‘fixed’? The PM says yes – the numbers say no. We need 4%

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Lauren Broomham

Aged care operator Superior Care to refuse new residents with specialised dementia needs

The family-owned operator, which operates aged care homes in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, has revealed it will no longer accept residents living with dementia who have special care needs.

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Home Care

Home care earnings rebound but future margins will be eroded: StewartBrown

Home care providers’ operating results rebounded in the July-September 2024 quarter after two quarters of declines as aged care accountants StewartBrown warn incoming changes to care management fees will put margins under pressure.

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Development

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There is no DA yet but Aliria’s next land lease community revealed with rentals added

Adrian Puljich has revealed the location for the first two boutique land lease communities for his own personal land lease brand. JRT Group began the building of Aliria on Dean in Berserker, about 6km northeast of Rockhampton’s CBD., in December...

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28 Jan 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Central Element now plan $250M luxurious CAPs development for seniors just 7km from Sydney CBD

The development company has bought a neighbouring block on the Pacific Highway at Greenwich and its new development application to Lane Cove Council reveals plans for two mixed-used Community Apartment Project (CAP) buildings for seniors, with...

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Out of the Ordinary

$1.7M for a manufactured home with the suburb’s median price $868k - is the $10.5M clubhouse a winning factor?

Operators are continually improving its high-end amenities, NSW Land Lease Living Industry Association CEO, Lyndel Gray says. “Developers are raising the bar with resort-style facilities to meet the desires of discerning home buyers who want...

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Third.i annouce Decode Construction as builder of The Merewether retirement village in Newcastle, NSW

More than seven years in the planning, the projected retirement village integrates the residential development, The Merewether Residences, and the existing 18-hole golf course in the suburb, 3km from the city of Newcastle.

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15 Jan 2025

Stockwell’s Solana Lifestyle Resorts lodge plans for fifth over 50s resort in QLD

Stockwell Development Group has applied to Bundaberg Regional Council to build a Solana Lifestyle Resort with 403 single-storey two-bedroom homes over eight stages on 17ha of land at Bargara, a popular location for retirement living communities.

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08 Jan 2025

Community Living

Elka Capital and Assembly Funds Management land lease community brand revealed: Springtree

It was in October last year, The Weekly SOURCE reported the new entrants to the senior’ land lease community sector had bought two sites in Victoria. Now it can be revealed the brand created by Elka Capital, the creation of David Laing and Tom...

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Housing News

Social and senior housing. 33 desperate Northern Beaches women turned away each month. How can the Prime Minister smile?

Throughout Australia the need for social housing, particularly seniors, continues to grow. Narelle Hand “Older women are needing safe affordable housing more than ever,” said Narelle Hand, Chief Executive Officer at Northern Beaches Women’s...

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Out of the Ordinary

RFBI planning two new retirement villages as it reinvests $6.9M surplus

The Not For Profit is a success story increasing its workforce by 5% in the past year, with 75 workers brought in from overseas, and its annual report revealing it has turned a deficit into a profit. RFBI has a turnover of $226 million, with revenue...

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153-unit expansion of Park Meadows by Uniting in Westmead, Sydney, underway

Stage 2 is the final part of the Not For Profit’s intergenerational project in the suburb, 26km west of Sydney’s CBD. The Weekly SOURCE reported in November last year, builder Taylor, who completed the $74.5 million Stage 1 of two six-storey...

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Health

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Is this the only way badly needed new aged care beds will be built?

Wollongong Lord Mayor Tania Brown, through council general manager Greg Doyle, has written to NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Paul Scully to consider a scheme to incentivise investment in residential aged care on the NSW South Coast. The...

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18 Dec 2024

Health

ACH opens its third Health Studio with HUR equipment for its wide community

The leading South Australian Not For Profit has opened a new $5 million advanced health and wellbeing hub at Rostrevor, 10km east-northeast of Adelaide’s CBD. The health studio includes a gym equipped with state-of-the-art HUR Australia exercise...

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18 Nov 2024

Ageing

Retirement by Moran provides empty Northern Beaches RAC to women in need – offers guidance to others on how

The private operator is facing at least two years to redevelop its 90 bed RAC. It has worked out how to provide it as accommodation to women in need at no cost. An initiative led by Sally Taylor, Managing Director of Retirement by Moran, they bought...

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20 Aug 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

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Mergers & Acquisitions

The first sale by the nation’s only pure-play provider of rental communities will be its village in Mount Gambier, the second most populated city in South Australia, 450km from the state capital Adelaide, for $5 million, slightly below the 30 June...

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