Topic - Aged Care

Estia achieves DA approval in just nine months for 120 place aged care home at Aberglasslyn (Hunter Region)

Aug 25 2020 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Designed and submitted by ThomsonAdsett Architects, the 9,000sqm home is designed on the ‘small house’ model championed by the Royal Commission.

Each will have approximately 20 beds.

The lead architect is Robert Puflett.

Student accommodation operator Scape Australia reportedly keen to buy Aveo’s retirement villages for $3.5bn

The Financial Review, quoting sources, claims four companies want to buy the leading retirement village operator owned by Brookfield, stating the leading student accommodation developer Scape is through to the second round of the possible $3.5...

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Ian Horswill

28 Jan 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

In the Headlines

Calvary Health Care turns retirement village into its first rental village

The Catholic provider’s Sydney Williams retirement village in Doncaster East, 20km east of Melbourne’s CBD, will operate as a seniors’ rental site due to community need as cost-of-living pressures impact seniors. The...

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Ian Horswill

29 Jan 2025

Government Policy

93 organisations funded to become CHSP providers for the first time

The Federal Government’s $100 million Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) Growth Funding 2024-25 grants have been allocated to 133 providers, including home care operator Five Good Friends, dementia specialists HammondCare, and ASX-listed...

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Caroline Egan

29 Jan 2025

Unthinkable: Why a local Council is taking over an aged care home

Presbyterian Aged Care NSW & ACT (PAC) began selling off its aged care assets in 2021. In 2023, the Not For Profit announced it wanted to leave its Apsley Riverview Aged Care Facility in Walcha, a town at the southeastern edge of NSW’s Northern Tablelands, 425km from Sydney.

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Could Australia really have a ‘de-rationed’ aged care system? The Greens say yes; logic – and fairness – says no

With the Federal Election due to take place by May, the Greens have unveiled their aged care policies. We don’t think they will fly.

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Lauren Broomham

06 Feb 2025

Aged Care

Productivity Commission: hope in aged care but plenty of room for improvement

The median time between ACAT approval and entry into residential aged care in 2023-24 was 136 days, according to the Productivity Commission (PC)’s Report on Government Services 2025 on aged care services.

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Resthaven bids to replace existing aged care home in Marion, Adelaide

South Australian Not For Profit Resthaven has lodged plans to redevelop its Marion site, 10km south of the Adelaide CBD, including building a 150-place residential aged care home, with the existing home on the site recently marking its 50-year...

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Caroline Egan

06 Feb 2025