Topic - Aged Care

Carinity release first pictures inside new $32M RAC community in QLD

Jul 21 2021 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Carinity has released the first pictures from inside its new $32 million residential aged care home, The Residences at Brownesholme in Highfields, near Toowoomba, 125km west of Brisbane’s CBD.

Carinity’s new 96-bed building is expected to be home for an estimated 100 residents. It is part of stage one of a $67 million expansion of the Carinity Brownesholme seniors’ precinct which includes an existing adjacent retirement village.

It’s the Not For Profit organisation’s 12th residential aged care home across Queensland.

BaptistCare, Baptcare and Baptist Care SA set to become Australia’s third-largest, integrated care and services provider

Almost 18 months after BaptistCare NSW/ACT and Baptistcare WA merged, the Boards and executives of BaptistCare (NSW, ACT, WA), Baptcare (VIC, SA, TAS), and Baptist Care SA today announced they will merge to form a billion-dollar aged care and...

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Lauren Broomham

14 Nov 2024

Government Policy

Aged Care Minister announces financial support for providers to help with reforms

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells has announced Government support for aged care providers to help them implement the once-in-a-generation reforms that are due to take effect in less than eight months’ time. In Senate Inquiry hearings and submissions...

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Caroline Egan

17 Nov 2024

Government Policy

The 10 amendments the Opposition wants to make to the Aged Care Bill 2024

Today, Shadow Minister for Aged Care Senator Anne Ruston on behalf of the Opposition has tabled 10 amendments to the Aged Care Bill 2024 in the Senate.

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Caroline Egan

20 Nov 2024

Government Policy

Aged Care Bill 2024 passes Senate with bipartisan support after amendments

In a historic moment for the aged care sector and older Australians, the Aged Care Bill 2024 has been approved in the Senate. “We congratulate our elected politicians for putting older Australians and the future of aged care above party politics...

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Caroline Egan

21 Nov 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

News & Issues

Retirement Living Council to significantly cut price of Code of Conduct subscription to support operator sign up

Executive Director Daniel Gannon said it is time to engage all village operators to participate – it is simply not good enough that less than 40% of retirement villages are subscribers to its Code of Conduct launched six years ago. He states that...

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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