Development

Only in SATURDAY – the real reason aged care beds are hard to find

Oct 26 2023 Updated October 26, 2023

Caroline Egan

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The Department of Health and Aged Care puts occupancy at 86.2%. Our investigations differ.

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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

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

News & Headlines

Adrian Puljich has approval for Australia’s first vertical land lease lifestyle resort

GemLife Director and CEO Adrian Puljich speaks about Australia’s first vertical land lease community. GemLife Currumbin Waters, and how he intends taking the model acorss Australia.

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Ian Horswill

14 Jan 2025

Opinion

Today, with 78-year-old President Trump in America and 30-something Adrian Puljich and Patrick Abolakian in Australia, each stand out – but we are in better hands

What a day. The US and the world looks to Trump to make America (and the world?) great with his inauguration and his deportation of immigrants. Here in Australia’s seniors living sector, we have two sons of immigrants leading the way to support...

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Chris Baynes

21 Jan 2025

Is aged care ‘fixed’? The PM says yes – the numbers say no. We need 4%

New year, same old problem: where will the country find the capital to incentivise development of new beds – before the next wave of Baby Boomers hits? As we report in this issue, the latest StewartBrown Aged Care Performance Survey Analysis...

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Aged care operator Superior Care to refuse new residents with specialised dementia needs

The family-owned operator, which operates aged care homes in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, has revealed it will no longer accept residents living with dementia who have special care needs.

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Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson replaced by Liz Hefren-Webb

On 20 January 2025, Janet Anderson PSM, former Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner passed the baton to the new cop on the beat, former deputy secretary of social policy with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Liz Hefren-Webb.

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Why residential aged care operators’ profits will rise: StewartBrown

In the July to September 2024 quarter, residential aged care providers were preparing their rosters for higher care minute targets, due to take effect on 1 October. However, with Government funding for the higher staff bill not kicking in until the targets took effect, providers’ earnings took a hit, according to StewartBrown’s Aged Care Financial Performance Survey Report for the period.

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Caroline Egan

23 Jan 2025