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25 Sep 2025

Final Aged Care Rules land – but rollout in 38 days “impossible”

Aged care providers say the final Aged Care Rules 2025 have landed far too late, warning that with just 38 days until the 1 November start date, implementation is “complex at best and impossible at worst.”

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StewartBrown: factor care margins into AN-ACC funding

StewartBrown’s latest analysis of the AN-ACC funding decision has delivered a clear warning: the increase is too low to cover ordinary cost rises and wages, with direct care margins expected to fall further. Historically, those care margins have been used to cross-subsidise losses in accommodation and hotel services. With that buffer narrowing, StewartBrown argues the time has come for the sector to push for margins to be explicitly factored into care funding.

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Home Care

Ageing Australia puts threatened CHSP under microscope

The future of the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) was in focus this week, with Ageing Australia hosting a national CHSP Summit in Melbourne on Tuesday (22 September).

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95% of clients satisfied with Care Finders as program extended to 2029

The Federal Government’s Care Finders Program (CFP), launched in January 2023 as a Royal Commission recommendation, has received a strong endorsement from clients – but not without warnings about persistent access issues.

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Four in five aged care capital grant applications rejected

The latest round of the Aged Care Capital Assistance Program (ACCAP) has once again highlighted the gulf between providers’ ambitions to build and the funding available. The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing received 367 applications seeking more than $2.4 billion in total funding. Just 66 projects were successful – less than one in five – with $300 million allocated overall, or around 12% of the total requested.

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Home Care

ABC 7.30 hones in on higher home care fees under Support at Home

The ABC’s 7.30 program has put the spotlight on increased consumer contributions under the Government’s new Support at Home scheme, set to begin 1 November 2025. As The Weekly SOURCE reported in SATURDAY back in July, from 1 November 2025, clients approved for Home Care Packages after 12 September 2024 will be required to contribute up to 15% of their service costs. That co-payment could mean $70 to $210 per week for basics like showering or domestic help.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Curtin Heritage Living pays $56M for prime Perth site to build “integrated care precinct”

Curtin Heritage Living has staked its claim on one of Perth’s most prestigious riverfront sites, paying $56 million for a 2.8-hectare block in Mosman Park to develop what it calls an “integrated care precinct.”

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Kirinari-LiveBetter merger marks latest push for scale in home care

The consolidation of home care providers is accelerating as the new Support at Home program looms just weeks away. Regional operators Kirinari and LiveBetter are the latest to merge, creating what is now Australia’s largest regional human services provider, with more than 15,000 customers across New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

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Aged Care

Regis shares dive 27% as AN-ACC reweighting slashes earnings outlook

The ASX-listed residential aged care provider has warned it will scale back development plans after the Federal Government’s AN-ACC price announcement and classification reweightings left funding growth well short of expectations.

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22 Sep 2025

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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18 Sep 2025

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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18 Sep 2025

Development

Only in SATURDAY: why future proofing villages building to 9C pays

Building retirement villages to Class 9C standards can add up to 10% to the total cost of construction. But for a growing number of operators, the upgrade is no longer optional.

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