Home Care

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One in four home care services failed to comply with Quality Standards: ACQSC

Compliance rates for home care providers improved 8 percentage points in Q1 2024-25, with 73% of assessments finding the provider complied with all 8 of the Aged Care Quality Standards.

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Caroline Egan

21 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

Silverchain Group appoint Haydn Chrystal as Chair after Anne Skipper AM’s retirement

Australia’s leading provider of in-home health and aged care has announced its new Chair after the retirement of Anne Skipper AM who has chaired the business for more than 14 years. “It has been an incredible privilege to Chair first RDNS and...

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Ian Horswill

20 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells promoted to Cabinet for role in “most significant reforms in aged care this century”

In recognition of her successful role in getting aged care reforms through parliament, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promoted the Minister for Aged Care Anika Wells to Cabinet as part of a pre-election reshuffle brought on by the departure of NDIS Minister Bill Shorten.

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Caroline Egan

16 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

Home Care

Attention home care providers: do you feel optimistic for 2025?

As home care providers prepare for what may be their most important year ahead, aged care advisory firm Enkindle Consulting’s 2025 Home Care Provider Outlook Survey is aiming to identify and highlight their key priorities and the challenges they face.

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Caroline Egan

13 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Inspector-General restates disappointment in continued rationing of aged care: Ian Yates AM’s parting statement

In signing off on his time as Acting Inspector-General of Aged Care, Ian Yates AM has provided a statement to The Weekly SOURCE drawing attention to the Government’s “severe” under-resourcing of the office.

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Caroline Egan

13 Jan 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Regis acquires BodeWell Community Care to double its home care business revenue to $30M a year

Managing Director and CEO Dr Linda Mellors acknowledged the opportunity the ageing population and the consumer preference to age in place behind its decision to buy the Knowles Group’s in-home services business, launched in 2007.

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Ian Horswill

08 Jan 2025

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

Housing News

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Aged Care

Southern Cross Care (WA) puts homeless seniors into one of its aged care homes

The Not For Profit has a 97% occupancy rate, well above the Government’s national average of 86.1%, with 476 residents in its eight residential aged care homes in Perth’s Metropolitan area, Kalgoorlie and Broome.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Housing News

Bethanie Housing chosen by WA Government to build and operate new seniors social housing development

The registered charity, which provides subsidised accommodation and services to seniors in need, has been chosen as the preferred operator to develop and operate a new 90-dwelling community housing development in Mount Lawley, an inner northern suburb of Perth.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Government Policy

New modular homes for seniors in West Australian town

Just three two-bedroom, one-bathroom homes will be available for seniors on the housing waitlist in Manjimup, a town 307km south of the state capital, Perth, in early 2025. The modular houses have been added to the 26-lot Cherry Glades development site...

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Ian Horswill

10 Jan 2025

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

Government

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Home Care

One in four home care services failed to comply with Quality Standards: ACQSC

Compliance rates for home care providers improved 8 percentage points in Q1 2024-25, with 73% of assessments finding the provider complied with all 8 of the Aged Care Quality Standards.

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Caroline Egan

21 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Great news for retirement village operators planning developments in NSW

The criteria for the NSW Government’s Housing Delivery Authority includes seniors housing specifically as a priority on its delivery. The Housing Delivery Authority (HDA) will lead a new streamlined State Significant Development (SSD) pathway and...

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Ian Horswill

06 Jan 2025

Aged Care

Homes operated by large For Profit providers have higher rates of compliance with Quality Standards

Aged care homes operated by large and For Profit providers have significantly higher rates of compliance with the Aged Care Quality Standards than their smaller Not For Profit counterparts, according to the newly-released Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s (ACQSC) Q1 2024-25 Sector Performance Report.

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Caroline Egan

20 Jan 2025

Government Policy

11 aged care providers ‘named and shamed’ by the regulator for failing care minute targets

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has named 27 residential aged care homes and eleven providers who have been hit with ‘enforceable undertakings’ for failing to meet their care minute targets. Nine of the 27 homes listed are operated by Tricare.

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Caroline Egan

16 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells promoted to Cabinet for role in “most significant reforms in aged care this century”

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Caroline Egan

16 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Department’s $580,000 aged care Star Ratings evaluation reveals what operators already know

Management consultants Allen + Clarke found Australia’s Star Ratings system has incentivised improvements to the quality of aged care services but “perceived inaccuracies” in the staffing and compliance ratings and ”negative media coverage” had eroded trust in the system.

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Caroline Egan

16 Jan 2025

Aged Care

New initiative seeks to train Indonesian nurses to work as aged care workers in Australia

With an estimated 250,000 Indonesian nursing graduates currently unemployed, a new program is seeking to help Australian aged care providers meet their personal care worker shortages by tapping into the country’s oversupply of trained nurses.

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Lauren Broomham

15 Jan 2025

Housing News

Bethanie Housing chosen by WA Government to build and operate new seniors social housing development

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Inspector-General restates disappointment in continued rationing of aged care: Ian Yates AM’s parting statement

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Caroline Egan

13 Jan 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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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

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

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

Government Policy

Aged Care Transition Taskforce members revealed

The Department of Health and Aged Care has revealed the members of the Federal Government’s new Aged Care Transition Taskforce, which met for the first time last Thursday (28 November 2024).

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Caroline Egan

05 Dec 2024

Technology

Telstra Health wins second award for aged care risk-identification tool

Australia’s first electronic risk prediction tool for deterioration in aged care residents has won Research Australia’s Digital & Data Health Innovation Award for 2024. The tool uses natural language processing and machine learning to analyse the data and track 36 markers of deterioration.

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Caroline Egan

28 Nov 2024

Technology

EY awarded $620K contract to assess “digital maturity” of aged care sector

The Department of Health and Aged Care has contracted consultants EY to assess the “digital maturity” of the aged care sector with a view to developing benchmarks and informing future aged care reforms. “The Department of Health and Aged Care is...

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Caroline Egan

21 Nov 2024

Technology

Aged care operators heading for “challenging time” as deadline for reforms approaches: Epicor

With the aged care sector anxiously waiting to see if the new Aged Care Bill 2024 passes Parliament this month, enterprise software provider Epicor is warning that operators need to be preparing now given the limited timeframe to transition to the...

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Lauren Broomham

14 Nov 2024

Home Care

In latest SATURDAY magazine: Mable’s role in Australia’s aged care system cemented with 650 new recruits a week

Mable’s offer of choice, flexibility and control for workers - and choice of support for customers - is making the peer-to-peer support worker platform a lynchpin of Australia’s aged care ecosystem. What role is the platform increasingly playing...

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Caroline Egan

30 Oct 2024