Home Care

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Opinion

2024 aged care report card: pass for residential care, home care a failure

The final report card for the aged care sector looks very different depending on what services you deliver.

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Lauren Broomham

18 Dec 2024

Government Policy

Fed Govt to release 7,615 new Home Care Packages as 76,000 wait for care

The Government will spend just $101.7 million on the new Packages ahead of the transition to the new Support at Home program from 1 July 2025.

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Lauren Broomham

18 Dec 2024

Home Care

Govt bows to pressure on delaying full implementation of Support at Home pricing

In what appears to be another concession to its reform agenda, the Federal Government has revealed overnight that it will stage the introduction of price caps on services in the new Support at Home program over a 12-month period.

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Lauren Broomham

13 Dec 2024

Aged Care

2024 Year in Review: Aged Care

In this edition of our 2024 Year in Review, we look back at the most significant aged care stories of the year.

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Caroline Egan

18 Dec 2024

Home Care

Late March release of Support at Home detail leaves 62 working days for implementation

The Department of Health and Aged Care has revealed that “advice on pricing will be provided before the end of the year ahead of more detailed advice by the end of March 2025” in a Support at Home webinar held last Thursday 5 December. The advice...

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Caroline Egan

12 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Which aged care provider has been awarded a $136M contract to conduct assessments under new Single Assessment System?

The Department of Health and Aged Care has released details of contracts worth nearly $1.5 billion awarded to operators to conduct aged care assessments under the new Single Assessment System. The largest contract, worth more than $226 million, was...

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Caroline Egan

12 Dec 2024

Government Policy

Reform roadmap on the agenda for inaugural meeting of Aged Care Transition Taskforce

The Aged Care Transition Taskforce (ACTT) has released a summary of what was discussed at its inaugural meeting, held on 28 November 2024. Members discussed the importance of having a central point of contact where the sector can communicate...

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Two key Dept architects of the aged care reforms are moving to new jobs

Michael Lye, the Deputy Secretary, Ageing and Aged Care, and Nick Morgan, Assistant Secretary, Support at Home Reform, with the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) have new jobs in the public sector that will shift them away from aged care, only months before significant reforms are scheduled to be implemented.

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

Technology

Person Centred Software announces partnership with KPMG’s home care software platform

Technology provider Person Centred Software Australia, which offers software for residential aged care and retirement living operators, has announced a new strategic relationship with KPMG Australia’s Community Care platform, which extends its digital offerings to home care.

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

Housing News

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Development

SA Government proposes four to six-storey retirement villages targeting single occupants

“The aim of the Accommodation Diversity Code Amendment is to increase the number of well-designed, diverse, and affordable housing supply options across the entire state, to respond to these population projections and growth in single person...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Housing News

First women aged 55 and over move into social housing in Melbourne as Margot Robbie Netflix doco highlights older women’s homelessness

Construction of the 96 social housing homes, a partnership between National Affordable Housing and Pace Development Group with $50 million provided by the Victorian Government, began in May 2023. The “missing middle” a term used by the...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Housing News

Apollo Care and The Shelter Collective provide 10 homes for women aged over 55 in Rockhampton

The aged care provider is partnering with the Central Queensland-based community-driven group of organisations to provide 10 affordable homes in Rockhampton. The Shelter Collective identifies underutilised or unused property to repurpose as housing...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Community Living

This is not a retirement village or land lease community — it’s a Build to Rent

The Gladstone, which is South Caroline-based Greystar’s first Build to Rent tower in Australia, has opened its doors with two months’ free rent in Melbourne. The largest apartment manager in the US, with over 726,826 units/beds as of 2023 has...

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Ian Horswill

02 Dec 2024

Housing News

Build to Rent laws passed with forecast of 80,000 rental homes in 10 years

The tax incentives in the Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Bill 2024 and Capital Works (Build to Rent Misuse Tax) Bill 2024 apply to Build to Rent (BTR) projects of 50 or more apartments or dwellings, made...

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Ian Horswill

02 Dec 2024

Housing News

WA Government approves development of social and affordable BTR

The first state government-led Build to Rent will have109 one- and two-bedroom social, affordable and specialist disability rental apartments, across a four-storey development. The Smith Street Build-to-Rent (BTR) project is on the site of former...

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Ian Horswill

02 Dec 2024

Housing News

Funding secured for Uniting WA to operate social housing for women over 55 in Perth

The Not For Profit owns Wyn Carr House in Freemantle, 19km southwest of Perth’s CBD, and has secured $7 million from the state government to redevelop it for transitional accommodation for women over 55 facing homelessness. It had been hoped to...

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Ian Horswill

02 Dec 2024

Government

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Government Policy

Fed Govt to release 7,615 new Home Care Packages as 76,000 wait for care

The Government will spend just $101.7 million on the new Packages ahead of the transition to the new Support at Home program from 1 July 2025.

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Lauren Broomham

18 Dec 2024

Government Policy

Breaking news: Fed Govt slashes $2.5B off aged care with new payments in arrears for residential aged care from 1 July 2026

With the Federal Budget slipping further into deficit over the next four years, the Mid-Year Economic Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) 2024-25 has revealed the Albanese Government is looking to save on spending with aged care is in its sights. Presenting the...

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Health

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Government Policy

Is this the only way badly needed new aged care beds will be built?

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Ian Horswill

18 Dec 2024

Health

ACH opens its third Health Studio with HUR equipment for its wide community

The leading South Australian Not For Profit has opened a new $5 million advanced health and wellbeing hub at Rostrevor, 10km east-northeast of Adelaide’s CBD. The health studio includes a gym equipped with state-of-the-art HUR Australia exercise...

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Ian Horswill

18 Nov 2024

Ageing

Retirement by Moran provides empty Northern Beaches RAC to women in need – offers guidance to others on how

The private operator is facing at least two years to redevelop its 90 bed RAC. It has worked out how to provide it as accommodation to women in need at no cost. An initiative led by Sally Taylor, Managing Director of Retirement by Moran, they bought...

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Ian Horswill

20 Aug 2024

Funding

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Funding

Bain Capital-owned Estia Health reportedly secures $300M finance line

Estia Health has secured $300 million in financing from Japanese Bank Nomura, according to The Australian Financial Review’s Street Talk column.

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

Government Policy

200 patients still lying in SA hospitals waiting for aged care beds

It would take two large aged care homes to house all the older patients in South Australian hospitals ready to be discharged, but waiting to be offered an aged care bed. The Peter Malinauskas Labor Government’s promise to build more than 600 new...

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Caroline Egan

17 Oct 2024

Government Policy

Hourly updates on Senate Inquiry into the Aged Care Bill 2024 in Canberra today

The Senate Inquiry into the Aged Care Bill 2024 will hold eight hearings around the country this month, with the Inquiry expected to be wrapped up by the end of the year. Acting Inspector-General of Aged Care Ian Yates is the first to appear before the inquiry in Canberra on 3 October 2024.

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Caroline Egan

03 Oct 2024

Government Policy

Inspector-General: aged care reforms do not meet Royal Commission’s expectations

In its Senate Inquiry into the Aged Care Bill 2024 submission, the Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Care (OIGAC), which is led by long-time industry expert Ian Yates AM, has restated its position that Australia should be moving towards...

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Caroline Egan

03 Oct 2024

Technology

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Technology

The new weekly visitor to an inner-city Melbourne aged care home

Abi, the humanoid companion robot developed by robotics start up Andromeda and uses GPT4 artificial intelligence to recognise faces and build relationships, will visit Benetas’ Gladswood Lodge aged care home in Brunswick West for two or three hours a week.

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Caroline Egan

12 Dec 2024

Technology

In our Innovators edition of SATURDAY: mecwacare invests $20M in digital transformation and AI

The use of real-time data monitoring and predictive data analytics is still relatively limited in aged care today. But operator mecwacare is looking to get ahead of the pack, having tapped global professional services firm Cognizant to help it integrate its IT systems and improve user experience.

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

Technology

Telstra and Optus began closing down their 3G networks on 28 October 2024, with Telstra saying it will take about a week to shutdown their network, and Optus saying the process could take months. Devices that may be affected include phones...

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Caroline Egan

30 Oct 2024