Aspen: housing situation is diabolical and opportunities are massive
Aspen’s longer-stay rentals are “essentially full” and rents are rising across its models.
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Community Living
Aspen: housing situation is diabolical and opportunities are massive
Aspen’s longer-stay rentals are “essentially full” and rents are rising across its models.
Aged Care
“Too much paperwork”: Leecare chief flags next frontier for reform
The tighter regulatory environment since the Royal Commission and the new Aged Care Act have dramatically increased the administrative burden on frontline staff.
Government Policy
Why RLC wants aged care beds counted in national housing targets
“We’re broadening our advocacy asks to include aged care beds in the Prime Minister’s national housing targets and seeking expedited planning pathways in all states to cater for increasing demand.”
Opinion
Stop the hospital blame game – it’s time for aged care to put Plan T on the table
Health and aged care are not separate crises. They’re one system problem. Older people’s needs are joined up – it’s our funding and governance that are carved into silos.
Plan T: Transformation - co-located villages can solve hospital ‘bed crisis’ in 16 weeks
Here is our thinking: Australia’s 700 co-located retirement villages will have 6,560 village homes vacated each year, or 126 every week. Why doesn’t the sector turn each vacated home over to a human being currently stuck in hospital?
Australia’s running out of aged care beds – and out of time
Colliers’ new Residential Aged Care Market Report confirms what everyone in the sector has felt in their bones: Australia’s aged care system is on a collision course. The headline figure – 800 new residential places in 2024-25 – was already pitiable. Once Boxwell & Co corrected the Department’s data, the
Cameron McPherson: ‘The new law risks boxing providers into yesterday’s model’
Cameron McPherson, CEO of Medical & Aged Care Group, writes that Australia’s new Aged Care Act funds care delivery on a cost basis rather than on outcomes, rewarding activity over measurable gains in independence, connection and quality of life.
News & Headlines
Illawarra aged care home evacuated due to fire
“There was a fire in a ceiling that was contained by the sprinkler system.”
From co-contributions to continuum: Tom Symondson on where aged care reform must go next
Aged care’s next test won’t be passing legislation – it will be tracking what actually happens when the new rules collide with real lives. Tom Symondson, CEO of peak body Ageing Australia, says the design intent behind Support at Home is...
AlayaCare acquires Nightingale Software to deepen its aged care footprint in ANZ
Aged, home and community care platform AlayaCare has acquired Nightingale Software, strengthening its position across Australia and New Zealand’s aged care, home care and disability sectors.
Regis Aged Care buys OC Health's two aged care homes for $350K per bed
The ASX-listed operator has entered into binding agreements to acquire family-owned OC Health's two remaining aged care homes for $45 million plus a $36 million liability for RADs. The purchase of Ocean Mist, in Torquay, a seaside town southwest of...
