Aged care needs an accommodation reset, StewartBrown says
StewartBrown has outlined several changes in its submission to the Government’s Residential Aged Care Accommodation Pricing Review aimed at attracting new capital into the system.
StewartBrown has outlined several changes in its submission to the Government’s Residential Aged Care Accommodation Pricing Review aimed at attracting new capital into the system.
Interim Packages are already shifting behaviour, grandfathered clients are feeling the squeeze, CHSP is splintering – and price caps are looming with no roadmap in sight.
At 30 June 2025, Australia had 236,894 operational residential and flexible aged care places – only 917 more than the year before.
What wasn’t highlighted was the fine print: from 1 January, incentive payments for all other priority occupations – including aged, disability and childcare – will be halved.