Aged and Home Care

Home care predicted to be focus in Federal Budget
The ABC is reporting that funds will be directed towards the 60,000 people who have…

Listed Zenitas acquires two home care providers in VIC and NSW
The community-based health care provider has paid $4 million for 100% of the shares in…

Home and community care consumer experience reports online later this year
The Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (AACQA) will expand its Consumer Experience Reports after launching…

People Movers
Highly respected QLD aged care and village CEO Peter Bell has been appointed CEO of…

NZ’s No. 2 village operator Summerset launches Melbourne office for its potential Australia expansion
The office will be headed up by Summerset’s new General Manager of Development for Australia…

Uniting opens new village and aged care hub in Canberra – facilities open to the public
Our largest operator of aged care, home care and retirement villages, Uniting NSW & ACT…

First vertical retirement village on the NSW Mid North Coast “tops out”
The $30 million project will deliver 52 two- and three-bedroom apartments – named The Cascades…

“Pie in the sky?” $100M resort development with palliative care in TAS raises eyebrows
The proposed development by Melbourne group Cambria Green Agriculture and Tourism Management will see 70…

“Crunch time”: aged care providers need to meet community expectations or exit industry, Nick Loudon says, plus RACs are a ‘dead horse’
The Seasons Aged Care CEO – and LASA Board member – has taken the industry…

Busting aged care “media myths”: ACSA launches new social media ‘untruths’ series
Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA) has started “debunking” some of the “many untruths” about…

“Like shifting the deckchairs on the Titanic”: aged care advocate calls for mandated staffing ratios
Aged care researcher and advocate Dr Sarah Russell writes in The Guardian claims by politicians…

Aged care plan for former Mullumbimby (NSW) hospital site – available from state government for $1
The NSW Government offered to sell the 13-acre Mullumbimby Hospital to Byron Bay Shire Council…