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.
Speaking to SATURDAY digital magazine exclusively ahead of the change, CEO Tom Symondson said one of the key drivers behind the rebrand is the fact that one-third of Ageing Australia’s membership is delivering retirement living and seniors’ housing – not residential aged care.
“Our strategy is really to make sure people see retirement living as part of that continuum of services to older people, not something that’s different to aged care, but something that’s part of that journey for an older person,” said Tom.
ACCPA was formed in June 2022 to be a single voice representing For Profit and Not For Profit residential aged care and home care providers, and merged the two main peak bodies: Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) and Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA).
To find out more about the peak body's next steps following this latest change, read our first issue of SATURDAY for 2025, out next Friday 31 January.