Home Care

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Government Policy

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission forecasts 400% increase in revenue from aged care registration fees

The ACQSC’s consultation paper, including the proposed fees, is available here

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Government Policy

Ageing Australia slams Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s proposed fee hike

Download Ageing Australia’s submission here

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Global asset manager TPG buys majority interest in home care disruptor Five Good Friends

The Brisbane based aged care and disability in-home operator, founded in 2016 by Simon Lockeyer, Nathan Betteridge, Tim Russell and David Waldie, has accepted a substantial investment to keep growing its home care business. San Francisco based TPG...

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Ian Horswill

09 Apr 2025

Home Care

City of Greater Geelong council pauses transferring home care services after widespread protest

A meeting to discuss with workers Geelong City Council’s proposal to exit home care services has been delayed until May following pressure from MPs Christine Couzens, Ella George, Alison Marchant and Gayle Tierney and the Australian Services Union Vic Tas.

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Aged Care

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

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

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Aged Care

How healthcare and aged care silos will converge within five years: LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 presentations videos are on YouTube

Cam Holland, former Ryan Healthcare Australia CEO and now Hub Lead – Primary Care & Investments with Medibank-owned Amplar, delivered LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 a hopeful future vision of aged care driven by productivity improvements across the whole healthcare sector.

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Home Care

Limits on End-of-Life Pathway under Support at Home could leave some without care in final days

Dr Peter Allcroft, Chair of Palliative Care Australia (PCA), has raised concerns about what happens when someone outlives their package under the new Program.

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Government Policy

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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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Technology

100-year-old Joe receives care at home. Can we make this the rule not the exception?

Emma Cornwell, Executive GM Health Services with Australian Unity, and Bev Smith, Chief Commercial Officer with Amplar Health, told the Leaders Summit how scarce clinical resources can be assisted with virtual care.

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Caroline Egan

03 Apr 2025

Housing News

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Housing

Barossa Village revitalises underutilised land for the Buna/Kokoda housing project in Nuriootpa

Each of the five homes, which replaced two houses on the 2,400msq site in the town of Nuriootpa, the commercial centre of South Australia’s Barossa Valley, has been individually designed. “These are not one-size-fits-all units — they are...

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Ian Horswill

22 hours ago

Mergers & Acquisitions

‘Affordable’ Aspen Group adds to portfolio with second WA land buy in six weeks

The ASX-listed affordable housing group announced last Wednesday it has entered a conditional contract to buy a new 18ha accommodation complex in Australind, a town 12km northeast of Bunbury’s CBD. Aspen Group, which serves the 40% of Australian...

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Ian Horswill

07 Apr 2025

Topic - Housing News

Sydney Anglican Property lodging DAs to renew two sites with housing for women over 55 included

Social and affordable housing is much-needed in Sydney’s southwest and two projects delivering almost 260 such homes have been successful under Round 1 of the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF). However, as the Coalition...

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Ian Horswill

31 Mar 2025

Funding

Mareeba Community Housing Co granted extension to management of Community Housing for Seniors in Cape York

The community at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland has more than 300 locals, including seniors, currently vulnerable to homelessness. Mareeba Community Housing Company (MCHC), which was given a three-year extension to its...

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Ian Horswill

31 Mar 2025

Community Living

Catholic Care in partnership to provide housing for women 55+

The Diocese of Parramatta’s social welfare agency is working with the Older Women’s Network Blue Mountains to address the plight of housing insecurity and homelessness for women aged 55 and over in the region on the outskirts of western Sydney...

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Ian Horswill

24 Mar 2025

Sector Moves & People

Former Ingenia Communities executive Kate Melrose appointed Non Executive Director of community housing provider Evolve Housing

Kate was a lead in the growth of the ASX-listed Ingenia Communities for 10 years, almost solely as Executive & General Manager Project Sales. She spent the final 10 months in a part-time role as Principal Advisor Stakeholder Engagement and...

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Ian Horswill

17 Mar 2025

Government Policy

Vasey RSL Care secures $5.7M for acute housing for veterans

The leading provider of ex-service accommodation, care and support is creating The V Satellite, in Geelong, Victoria, to provide transitional accommodation and support services to veterans in need after securing $4.3 million from the Australian...

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Ian Horswill

17 Mar 2025

Government

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Community Living

SATURDAY is business: The cost of living is biting deep in retirement villages

In the Federal Election issue of SATURDAY, President of the Association of Residents of Queensland Retirement Villages, Judy Maynard, starkly revealed what is happening in villages she visits. “We have the situation in villages people are...

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Ian Horswill

10 hours ago

Government Policy

RLC want Cairns Regional Council to scrap village resident rate proposal despite “backdown”

The peak body for retirement villages wants Cairns Regional Council to walk away from its proposal to charge the minimum single dwelling rate for each unit in a retirement village, as opposed to charging the village as one dwelling, as has been the...

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Ian Horswill

7 hours ago

Home Care

City of Greater Geelong council pauses transferring home care services after widespread protest

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Government Policy

Ageing Australia slams Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s proposed fee hike

Download Ageing Australia’s submission here

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Aged Care

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

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Government Policy

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

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Government Policy

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission forecasts 400% increase in revenue from aged care registration fees

The ACQSC’s consultation paper, including the proposed fees, is available here

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Aged Care

How healthcare and aged care silos will converge within five years: LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 presentations videos are on YouTube

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Home Care

Limits on End-of-Life Pathway under Support at Home could leave some without care in final days

Dr Peter Allcroft, Chair of Palliative Care Australia (PCA), has raised concerns about what happens when someone outlives their package under the new Program.

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Health

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Opinion

LEADERS SUMMIT 2025: ‘wellness’ and reablement should be key to future strategy for sector

Australia is already struggling to meet growing demand for care and support and this will only worsen with the ageing population - the focus must shift to reaching people before they require hospital-level treatment with much of the responsibility falling on aged care and retirement living operators.

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Lauren Broomham

20 Mar 2025

Home Care Delivery

Five Good Friends - revolutionising homecare: a self-service platform that connects people with the best care and health solutions in their community

Live well at home - Life changing care at home and helping people live engaged and successful lives in the homes & communities they love. All of Five Good Friends’ home service tools are available via our mobile app. NDIS approved

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Group Editor

26 Oct 2023

Government Policy

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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Ian Horswill

18 Dec 2024

Funding

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Funding

Macquarie Bank reduces its substantial stake in Ingenia Communities

The global financial services group has continued to reduce its stake in the owner/operator of land lease and rental communities and holiday parks. Macquarie Bank had a significant voting power of 10.92% in April last year, but the substantial...

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Ian Horswill

10 hours ago

Sector Moves/People

John Innes departs club/retirement living JV group Pariter with Tom Roche assuming CEO position

After five years establishing Pariter and creating a pipeline of joint ventures with community and golf clubs, John Innes has handed the CEO role to Tom Roche. John Innes Tom has led numerous large real estate and infrastructure transactions for...

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Ian Horswill

07 Apr 2025

Funding

GemLife’s owners look at becoming a public company for second time

Adrian Puljich and Singapore’s Thakral Corporation have reached out to JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley to set up introductory meetings with listed equities investors to see if there is sufficient interest in an Initial Public Offering for GemLife...

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Ian Horswill

08 Apr 2025

Funding

David Di Pilla sells substantial part of his 8% stake in Ingenia Communities

The HMC Capital Managing Director has sold down its stake as it raised $150 million to its balance sheet as it prepares to buy Brookfield Asset Management’s Healthscope, the second largest operator of private hospitals in Australia. David Di Pill...

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Ian Horswill

08 Apr 2025

Technology

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Technology

AlayaCare partners with Simple Foods to help aged care providers meet incoming food and nutrition standard

Leading aged care software provider AlayaCare has announced a partnership with Simple Foods, with plans to integrate the safety management and meal ordering software into its Residential Platform, helping providers more easily meet the incoming Aged Care Act Standard 6 related to food and nutrition.

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Caroline Egan

10 Apr 2025

Technology

Altura Learning launches new compact learning modules for aged care staff

As aged care workers face increasing demands on their time, Altura Learning has created a new range of compact learning modules designed to deliver streamlined content to the sector.

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Lauren Broomham

10 Apr 2025

Technology

Using Talius’ platform, the Not For Profit should have greater capacity to monitor the health and safety in real time of its nearly 9,000 home care clients, thereby giving them improved quality of life while they remain living in their own homes.

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Caroline Egan

13 Mar 2025