Aged Care

Aged Care

66 recipients of Aged Care Capital Assistance Program grants announced

The Australia Government has announced 66 recipients of its Aged Care Capital Assistance Program with grants worth $300 million. The largest - a grant of more than $50 million - has gone to Southern Cross Care (QLD) to build a new 94-bed residential care home in Broken Hill, NSW.

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Opinion

Would you invest in a business with zero margin?

The latest AN-ACC prices and weightings, released late last Friday, confirmed what many feared: after an initial uplift, the clawback has begun. Operators who saw gains since AN-ACC’s 2023 launch now face funding being stripped back.

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Lauren Broomham

Sam Rae visits Illawarra as region faces nation’s highest rate of ‘bed block’

Federal Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has visited Wollongong to meet with community and industry leaders in a region estimated to be 1,000 aged care beds short.

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Government confirms AN-ACC price rise and 42% hotelling supplement boost

The Albanese Government has confirmed new funding increases for residential aged care from next month – including a significant 42% jump in the hotelling supplement. From 1 October 2025, the Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC)...

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Lauren Broomham

12 Sep 2025

Aged Care

AN-ACC class reweighting leaves AdventCare $192K short of budget

David Reece, CEO of Not For Profit AdventCare, which operates two aged care homes in Victoria, said overall the AN-ACC changes announced last Friday afternoon will leave them $50,000 short of budgeted income this year.

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WA’s Shire of Manjimup seeks sale of aged care assets

The Shire of Manjimup Council has voted unanimously in support of a plan to seek Expressions of Interest for the Council’s aged care services, include home care, Moonya Aged Care Home (run by BaptistCare), and land promised for a future aged care home.

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Development

St Bart’s $46M aged care home for homeless partly funded by $30M Federal grant

St Bart’s has secured Federal funding for its long-planned aged care home in East Perth, with the Albanese Government confirming this afternoon it will contribute $30 million towards the $46 million build.

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Ian Horswill

Living with Dementia

Dr Rodney Jilek to take patients living with dementia aged care providers “refuse” to take

Effective immediately, Dr Rodney Jilek’s Community Home Australia has entered into an agreement with Nepean and Blue Mountains Local Health District to provide specialised dementia accommodation for patients aged care providers “refuse” to take.

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Senate Inquiry into aged care service delivery deadline extended to October

The Senate Inquiry into Aged Care Service Delivery has been granted a two-week extension, with its final report now due on 1 October 2025 – just a month before the new Aged Care Act and Support at Home program begin.

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15 Sep 2025

States step up pressure on Fed Govt as 2,500 hospital patients wait on aged care beds

State and Territory Health Ministers have called on the Federal Government to accelerate the delivery of aged care beds, warning hospitals are being clogged with older patients who have nowhere else to go.

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SA launches ‘geriatric flying squad’ to clear aged care hospital backlog

The South Australian Government has unveiled a new Geriatric Outreach Service – dubbed a “geriatric flying squad” – to help move older patients out of hospitals and into aged care.

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Legal Issues

Heritage Care found not guilty over deadly COVID-19 outbreak in 2020

A jury has found Victorian aged care provider Heritage Care did not breach the state’s Occupational Health and Safety laws by not properly training staff to use personal protective equipment (PPE) before a deadly COVID-19 outbreak.

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