Home Care

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Home care wait list climbs to over 81,000 with six month delays at all levels

Over a five-month period, the number of older Australians waiting to receive their correct level of Home Care Package has increased by 5,000 according to data released in Senate Estimates on Wednesday.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Sector Moves & People

Mable seeks to expand its B2B footprint with new Business Solutions platform

Mable has unveiled a new free end-to-end solution for aged care and disability coordinators and providers seeking qualified, reliable workers.

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Lauren Broomham

27 Feb 2025

Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Andrew Thorburn’s mission for HammondCare

Few operators want to tackle the complex end of aged care - but the HammondCare CEO has a plan to meet the growing demand for dementia and palliative care services.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Government Policy

Increase capital support for staff accommodation: Catholic Health Australia’s Pre-Budget Submission

Catholic Health Australia (CHA), which represents 350 aged care homes and about 20% of home care services around the country, is calling on the Federal Government to increase capital assistance for aged care operators in thin markets by almost $300 million annually.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Living with Dementia

Govt throws $57M at helping people with dementia out of hospitals into aged care

The Federal Government has allocated $57 million over four years for the Hospital to Aged Care Dementia Support Program (HACDSP), aimed at improving outcomes for hospital patients with dementia who may have their discharge delayed.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Sector Moves & People

Nicki Doyle appointed Senior MD of new FTI Consulting Healthcare & Human Services practice

US-based FTI Consulting, a global consultant specialising in organisations facing crisis and transformation, has established a dedicated Healthcare & Human Services practice in Australia, appointing former KPMG Partner Nicki Doyle as Senior Managing Director.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Opinion

Early intervention should be key aged care priority: Southern Cross Care (SA, NT & VIC) CEO David Moran’s ‘political wishlist’

Health promotion and the early identification and reversal of frailty should be at the heart of Australia’s aged care system, says the CEO of the Not For Profit provider which operates 17 aged care homes, 35 retirement villages, and delivers home care services.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

In the Headlines

Growing Not For Profit Resthaven celebrates its 90th birthday

‘Rest Haven’ was officially opened on 11 May 1935, by Lady Isabel Kidman, wife of the prominent pastoralist, Sir Sidney Kidman. Providing aged care for just a handful of residents, demand for Resthaven’s services grew quickly. Today, Resthaven...

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Ian Horswill

24 Feb 2025

Home Care

Home care still seen as viable business despite labour costs rising

Margins fell to 7.1% in Q1 2024-25 due to an 11% increase in expenses as claim days and package utilisation increased pushing labour costs higher.

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Caroline Egan

20 Feb 2025

Housing News

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Housing

SATURDAY magazine – it’s your business: affordable seniors’ housing on the back of a ute

Designed for ageing in place? Check. Up to three or four bedrooms? Check. Can be folded down to 2.5 metres wide? Check. Innovative VanHomes is making the old granny flat look like the doghouse. Full story in SATURDAY magazine. Considering...

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Ian Horswill

3 hours ago

Housing News

Toowoomba car park fast-tracked by Qld Govt for affordable Build to Rent

BTR’s second wind is having impact with the housing crisis. 75 apartments will be built on a car park in the centre of the city, 132km west of Brisbane, with work beginning this week. It is a Brisbane Housing Company (BHC) project, one of 17...

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Ian Horswill

5 hours ago

Housing News

Largest BTR announced in Sydney’s inner west where retirement living is few and far between

With financial incentives making it possible Rent to Live Co, a spin-off by the founders of student housing provider Scape, has announced a $1.5 billion Marrickville Timberyards development with almost 1,200 rental units, including 115 affordable...

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Ian Horswill

24 Feb 2025

Community Living

Aspen buys 26ha site in WA and reveals plans as HY25 results show strong growth

The ASX-listed affordable housing group has shown the vociferous demand for its products as it released its HY25 Financial Result on Thursday. Aspen Group’s revenue increased by 20.1% to $50.9 million, and its profit surged by 39.9% to $31.2 million...

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Ian Horswill

21 Feb 2025

Development

Victoria remains King of Build to Rent but there’s a new Queen: Knight Frank

With the Build to Rent tax reform legislation aiming to boost investment in apartment blocks designed and constructed for rental occupancy and retained in single ownership passed, there are signs momentum is beginning to show. Knight Frank’s...

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Ian Horswill

10 Feb 2025

Housing News

Anglicare Sydney opens 51 affordable housing units for over 55s women

Forestview, built by Growthbuilt and funded by the NSW Government, is the final project to be delivered under the Not For Profit’s current funding agreement with the state government. The 51 units for women over 55, which is part of St Luke’s...

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Ian Horswill

10 Feb 2025

Housing News

24 new units for women over 55, seniors and those with disabilities in Qld’s Sunshine Coast

Coast2Bay Housing Group will operate the Hollindale Mainwaring Architecture designed unit block in Stockland’s Aura, Australia’s largest residential development project, after it was constructed by Murphy Builders and funded by the Queensland...

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Ian Horswill

10 Feb 2025

Government

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Government Policy

Government announces AN-ACC increase for nurses pay rise the day before the change took effect

IHACPA provided their updated advice to the Government on 19 February, but it took nearly 10 days for the Government to provide the updated AN-ACC figures - leaving operators in the dark.

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Caroline Egan

4 hours ago

Government Policy

Provider feedback on liquidity ratios “robust”: Aged Care Quality Commissioner Liz Hefren-Webb

The Aged Care Quality Commission has already received feedback from a broad range of aged care providers about the proposed liquidity ratios, which were revealed last week and are open to consultation until 7 March.

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Caroline Egan

28 Feb 2025

Government Policy

Home care wait list climbs to over 81,000 with six month delays at all levels

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Technology

1 July ICT changes linked to aged care reforms now set to be staged

The Federal Government appears to have bowed to pressure around the timing of ICT changes for the new Aged Care Act, with the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) revealing that will upgrades to their Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will now be staged until 2026.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Government Policy

Always read the fine print: retirement village payments captured under new aged care liquidity ratios

A closer look at the legislation underpinning the Federal Government’s proposed minimum liquidity standards has revealed that aged care providers who also operate independent living units (ILUs) and retirement villages will have to retain 10% of ILU and retirement village refundable amounts under the changes.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Opinion

‘Rolled gold’ for Regis – but no ‘sandbags’ against the rising tide of aged care demand

The ASX-listed operator’s half year results highlight the growing optimism in residential aged care – but they also underline the challenges facing the wider sector.

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Lauren Broomham

27 Feb 2025

Aged Care

$160K out of pocket: Govt funding for aged care nurse wages falls short on leave entitlements and workers comp

Last week, a Department of Health and Aged Care webinar revealed that the Government will fund wage rises for 60,000 aged care nurses, awarded the increase by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) from 1 March 2025.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Development

Hall & Prior to operate Perth’s first purpose-built $65M Aboriginal aged care home

The 100-bed aged care home has been made possible thanks to a $25M Aged Care Capital Assistance Program grant, $10M secured from the WA Government in 2021 and the WA Government’s recent promise of an additional $5M capital grant and $10M low interest loan for the project.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Government Policy

51% of Dementia Support Australia aged care referrals’ involve psychotropic polypharmacy

Despite evidence that psychotropic medication is not effective and can have adverse side effects, a HammondCare study has found that more than half of its 421 referrals between 2016 and 2020 for psychosocial interventions had been prescribed psychotropic polypharmacy.

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Health

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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

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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Sector Moves & People

Mable seeks to expand its B2B footprint with new Business Solutions platform

Mable has unveiled a new free end-to-end solution for aged care and disability coordinators and providers seeking qualified, reliable workers.

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Lauren Broomham

27 Feb 2025

Technology

1 July ICT changes linked to aged care reforms now set to be staged

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Caroline Egan

27 Feb 2025

Technologies

Eevi - The safest medical alarm and sensor systems for your community, trusted by Australia’s largest community operators.

Eevi is a leading provider of smart based Medical Alarms. We provide emergency response support using premium technologies with response times twice as fast as the industry average. Supported by our high standards of customer service, we ensure...

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Group Editor

20 Apr 2023

Technology

AlayaCare launches “game changing” home care technology to flag risks and cut hospital admissions

Following a successful launch in Canada and the US, AlayaCare has launched the Client Intelligence Suite, which integrates clinical notes and client data using AI, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model with AlayaCare’s Predictive Risk Model to help staff triage clients.

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Caroline Egan

13 Feb 2025

Sector Moves & People

Another key driver of aged care reforms promoted within Dept

Fay Flevaras had been appointed Chief Digital Information Officer in the Australian Government Depart of Health and Aged Care after acting in the role of First Assistant Secretary Digital Transformation & Delivery – Aged Care Reform since 2021.

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Caroline Egan

06 Feb 2025

Opinion

Aged care in-home technology: a billion-dollar industry with good reason

Two pieces of news this week have reinforced an argument we’ve been making for some time: technology is the only viable solution to the aged care beds crisis that Australia is currently facing.

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Lauren Broomham

30 Jan 2025

Technology

Lifestyle SA Managing Director Stephen Norris invests $2.5M in technology solutions business Talius

Stephen, who is also part owner of Lifestyle SA’s 11 retirement villages in South Australia, said of his strategic investment: “The Aged Care Sector is at a critical juncture and the only path to drive better outcomes for the end client is vi...

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Ian Horswill

27 Jan 2025

Technology

Amplar Home Health launches AI-driven Tissue Analytics platform to improve wound care

The Medibank-owned home care provider Amplar Home Health has introduced the Net Health® Tissue Analytics platform, designed to transform wound care management for Amplar patients.

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Lauren Broomham

15 Jan 2025

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