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Caroline
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SATURDAY means business: What’s the relationship between the size of your aged care organisation and wages?

The 2023-24 data just released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency reveals the average wages paid by larger organisations compared with their smaller counterparts. What does this tell us about scale in aged care? To find out more, read this...

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Caroline Egan

13 hours ago

Government Policy

Projects on hold as Ageing Australia lobbies in opposition: liquidity ratios for retirement living and ILUs

Ageing Australia, along with several dozen CFOs of member organisations, has met with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) to lobby against the proposed inclusion of independent living and retirement village refundable amounts in proposed aged care liquidity standards.

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Caroline Egan

14 hours ago

Development

Rockpool Songbird Oxley in Brisbane on track to open late March

The six-storey, 152-bed residential aged care home, located 10km southwest of Brisbane’s CBD, is set to open, on schedule, later this month.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Home Care

Enkindle Consulting show the gaps in the Support at Home Manual

The long-awaited Support at Home Manual (SaH) dropped last Friday, all 209 pages. With many taking the long weekend to pore over its pages, some are concerned as much about the Manual’s omissions as they are about its contents. Jennene Buckley...

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Opinion

Home care reforms may drive older Australians away from essential services: Chris Mamarelis, Whiddon CEO’s ‘political wishlist’

Recent funding reforms to Australia’s aged care system go some way towards progress, but key issues remain unresolved, says Chris Mamarelis, CEO of Not For Profit provider Whiddon.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Technology

Uniting to pilot Talius’ AI-powered sensor-enabled home care technology

Using Talius’ platform, the Not For Profit should have greater capacity to monitor the health and safety in real time of its nearly 9,000 home care clients, thereby giving them improved quality of life while they remain living in their own homes.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Sector Moves & People

Former Brightwater CEO Dr Penny Flett passes away aged 77

The trailblazing geriatric medical specialist had a remarkable career, including two decades at the helm of one of Western Australia’s largest aged care providers.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Aged Care

Latest Draft Rules outline expansion of banning orders to include registered providers

For Penelope Eden, Partner at law firm MinterEllison, the most notable addition in release 2c of the Draft Aged Care Rules is the expanded authority given to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner to make banning orders against registered providers.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Aged Care

Anglicare Sydney marketing campaign evolves from real-life stories of residents

When the Not For Profit’s Marketing Manager Stacie Chalmers visited every one of Anglicare Sydney’s 23 aged care homes to interview residents, family and staff about what they liked about the home, she was touched by the stories she heard.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Government Policy

Aged care providers poised to build after WA Labor’s state election win promise

With Roger Cook returned to Government amid a thumping win for Labor in Western Australia, aged care providers are preparing to build on the back of the party’s $140 million worth of promises for the sector.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Mergers & Acquisitions

The four reasons for the BaptistCare merger: CEO Charles Moore

The Weekly SOURCE reported BaptistCare (NSW, ACT, WA), Baptcare (VIC, SA, TAS), and Baptist Care SA would merge last November, just shy of 18 months after BaptistCare NSW/ACT and Baptistcare WA announced their consolidation. Charles Moore, who has...

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Government Policy

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s workforce soars 50% in three years

The aged care regulator’s workforce has soared 50% to 1,598 in the last three years, while the My Aged Care workforce has grown 28% to 941 in the last year.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago

Mergers & Acquisitions

Hall & Prior announces date for takeover of beleaguered Blue Haven Bonaira aged care home

The WA-based family-owned aged care operator has revealed the majority of Bonaira staff have accepted offers of employment, with regulatory approval from the Department of Health and Aged Care for the transfer of operations expected in “the next week or two”.

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Caroline Egan

16 hours ago