Aged and Home Care

Australian-first: SA Govt passes landmark legislation for Adult Safeguarding Unit
The Office for the Ageing (Adult Safeguarding) Amendment Bill 2018 is designed to make it…

Fed Govt’s new aged care quality framework passes the Lower House
The framework, first announced in 2015, will see the existing accreditation standards for residential care,…

Mercy Health advertises over 100 jobs at new Ballarat aged care facility – video applications accepted
The Ballarat home is the Not For Profit’s first facility to be purpose-built around the…

Part 2: StewartBrown reports declining home care profits 12 months after CDC
Last week we covered aged care specialist accounting firm StewartBrown’s Senate submission analysing the declining…

Lutheran Services unveils plans for $30M Swiss-inspired eight-storey retirement village in inner Brisbane
The 52 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments at Alondra Residences will be part of a…

Continuing the Mission: Catholic Healthcare opens three new aged care homes
The 122-bed McQuoin Park home in Wahroonga, 22km north west of the Sydney CBD, was…

WA: Juniper opens $11.5M aged care facility in the East Kimberley
Co-funded by the Not For Profit and the Federal Government, Juniper Gerdewoonem (‘Juniper among the…

Southern Cross Care WA teams up with property developer for residential, aged care and retirement living precinct in Perth’s suburbs
The state’s Labor government has announced the Not For Profit and WA and VIC-based Yolk…

Brisbane mayor Graham Quirk to open stage two of Aura’s Kingsford Terrace retirement village – despite dumping sports club incentives for village and aged care developers
There’s clearly no bad blood between Aura and the Lord Mayor over the Council’s recent…

Forget downsizing: 20% increase in job ads for home lift installers since 2017
David Mayer, NSW State Sales Manager for Compact Home Lifts, reports 80-90% of their work…

If you are remotely interested in the business of residential aged care in Australia you must read this StewartBrown Senate Submission
Last week Grant Corderoy and accounting firm StewartBrown reach out to us with a copy…

Residential aged care requires $70 billion new investment within 10 years – unlikely to happen with these figures
The StewartBrown Senate submission identifies that in the 2015-16 financial year there was an estimated…