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Home Care

Another home care provider goes to the wall as administrator appointed

Perth-based home care and CHSP provider Therapy Focus has entered voluntary administration after more than 25 years in operation, serving over 4,000 clients – including nearly 1,500 aged care customers.

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57 minutes ago

Australian Senate votes for two separate inquiries into aged care reform

The Senate has voted to establish two new Senate inquiries into the Government’s historic aged care reforms, rollout out on the weekend after years of preparation, amid concerns they will not deliver for older Australians.

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19 hours ago

Development

Uniting NSW.ACT and Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care to build aged care home afer buying site for $1

The City of Sydney Council will award the site, currently a $20 million 55-space car park in Sydney’s inner west, to the Uniting NSW.ACT and Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care for a nominal fee of $1.

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Government considering low-cost funding to help aged care operators build: Sam Rae

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Aged Care

Aged care sector ‘ready’ for 1 November despite 150-plus last-minute documents

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More sleepless nights: nearly 2,800 hospital patients waiting for aged care

State Premiers warned last month there were about 2,500 older patients in public hospitals awaiting an aged-care placement. Today, that figure is closer to 2,800 – a 12% jump in a month – tightening the squeeze on already stretched acute beds.

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Hall & Prior and Amana Living take new aged care beds under WA Govt’s Time to Think program

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Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Residential aged care operators leaving money on the table

HELF and accommodation pricing are the two cash levers operators can control right now – so why aren’t more pulling them? In the current edition of SATURDAY digital magazine, we look at the options available - and why operators must be more courageous. Subscribe to SATURDAY.

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Home Care

CHSP provider Momentum Collective with 5,000 clients appoints voluntary administrator

Third Sector Australia Limited, trading as Momentum Collective, has entered voluntary administration, putting the future of 5,000 clients – including 674 receiving Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) services – under a cloud. FTI Consulting was appointed administrator on 16 October 2025.

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Taylor Fry awarded $655K to review IHACPA aged care pricing advice

The Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) has appointed consulting firm Taylor Fry on a $655,000 contract to independently validate its aged care pricing advice – continuing IHACPA’s long-standing annual quality-assurance practice.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Prices for aged care homes in demand “far exceed” recent valuations

Aged care homes are selling for prices well above their most recent valuations, fuelling a surge in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity across the sector, according to aged care consultancy Pride Aged Living.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Benetas acquires aged care site at Keyton’s Sherwin Rise retirement village in VIC

Benetas will develop, own and operate a new residential aged care home within Keyton’s Sherwin Rise retirement village at Wollert, 25km north of Melbourne’s CBD – extending a continuum of care to village homeowners and the broader North Melbourne community.

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