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Government scraps its controversial cleaning and gardening caps for Support at Home

The Albanese Government has announced a backflip on plans to impose a 52-hour per year cap on cleaning and 18-hour per year cap on gardening for recipients of Support at Home services. The plan, contained in the Aged Care Bill 2024 released for...

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19 Nov 2024

Living with Dementia

Group Homes Australia can provide specialised dementia care and support to retirement village residents

Group Homes Australia, which operates 22 specialist dementia homes in Sydney, can partner with retirement village operators to provide short-term accommodation, support and education for their own residents living with dementia. Group Homes...

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19 Nov 2024

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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17 Nov 2024

The reality of the home care waiting list: Cyril Tooze dies after sharing his horrific experience

Cyril Tooze, who spoke out in October about his 12-month wait to receive home care despite being assessed as needing the highest level care, has died. Tooze, from the Adelaide Hills, was terminally ill with heart and lung conditions and chose to die...

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Living with Dementia

Regis Aged Care revises plans for 99-bed, $33M Belrose home on Sydney’s Northern Beaches

Australia’s only publicly listed aged care provider has lodged plans with Northern Beaches Council to alter previously approved plans for Melrose Manor aged care facility, in Belrose, 19km north east of the Sydney CBD, including refining the design...

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Home Care

Older Australians face “harrowing” issues accessing aged care services: OPAN report

“It is disappointing to see that yet again, people are struggling to have clear communication and information from their aged care providers,“ said OPAN CEO Craig Gear

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Government warns FWC plan to increase nurse wages from 2025 could see aged care homes close

The Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) Paul Vermeesch and the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA), as ‘Joint Employers’, have made submissions to the Fair Work Commission warning against the implementation of the proposed wage rises for nurses from 1 January 2025.

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Sector Moves & People

Recruiting aged care staff from overseas is unsustainable: RFBI

Royal Freemasons’ Benevolent Institution (RFBI) CEO Frank Price says recruiting staff from overseas is not sustainable, even as the Not For Profit brings another 106 nurses into Australia from Fiji, making a total of 166 staff recruited from...

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Mergers & Acquisitions

integratedliving acquires St Andrew’s home care operations in NSW Northern Rivers region

Home care specialist integratedliving has acquired the home care operations of Ballina-based Not For Profit St Andrew’s. In transitioning out of home care, St Andrew’s will retain its focus on residential aged care and retirement living on the NSW...

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Home Care

Profit for Purpose home care and disability provider genU reports $30M loss

Melbourne-based profit for purpose genU, which provides disability and aged care services right across Australia, reported a comprehensive loss for the year of $29.2 million, compared with a loss of $6.1 million the previous year. Ingrid Williams...

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Cleaning and gardening caps a headache for Health and Aged Care Minister in ABC Radio interview

The Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler was again grilled by ABC Radio’s David Bevan in Adelaide this week, this time over the domestic assistance caps of 52 hours for cleaning per year and 18 hours for gardening proposed in the Aged Care Bill...

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The clock is ticking: Aged Care Bill headed to Australian Senate

The Aged Care Bill has been read a third time in the House of Representatives and is expected to be scheduled for debate in the Senate next week.

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