Aged Care

Read about it in SATURDAY: Ageing Australia want the Federal Election spotlight on aged care

Apr 10 2025 Updated April 10, 2025

Caroline Egan

1 min read

Three weeks out from the Federal Election, Ageing Australia CEO Tom Symondson has emphasised the aged care sector is not ‘fixed’, as Labor promised to do before the 2022 election, with more work to be done.

How does Tom plan to keep aged care on the political radar?

Find out in the week's SATURDAY, our premium digital magazine, out tomorrow. Subscribe here.

Bids for Brookfield’s retirement village operator Aveo are in

The Canadian multinational investment firm with over US$1 trillion of assets under management placed its retirement village owner/operator up for sale in June last year Bids for Aveo closed on Friday last week, The Australian reported. With a $3...

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Is Trump the golden ticket for aged care?

Hear me out – here’s the thinking. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably seen the headlines: US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on imports have rattled global financial markets – Australia included.

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Lauren Broomham

10 Apr 2025

Opinion

No winners if there is a race to the bottom on Support at Home prices

Media headlines are calling out the new pricing for home care as “outrageous”, but the reality is home care providers must increase their prices – or face financial oblivion.

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Lauren Broomham

03 Apr 2025

Opinion

Small is good – and faster in retirement living, but what does that say about the future?

Today we cover Mark Bindon and Franco DePasquale announcing their re-entry to the retirement village sector with three separate village projects of around just 25 homes each. Meanwhile Adrian Puljich announced at the LEADERS SUMMIT his new Aliri...

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Chris Baynes

01 Apr 2025

Is Trump the golden ticket for aged care?

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St Bart’s lodges $69M homeless residential aged care and community housing project in East Perth

Not For Profit St Bart’s Aged Care Services has lodged plans with the City of Perth council to develop a seven-storey, 80-bed residential aged care facility and adjacent eight-storey mixed use development, including 56 one-bedroom social housing apartments, with a total cost of $69M.

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Specialist five-bed hospital unit in Western Sydney for aged care residents

A specialist unit at Blacktown Hospital emergency department for patients admitted from residential aged care now sees 90% of patients return to their aged care home within 24 hours, down from an average stay of seven to 10 days previously.

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