Home Care

Home care wait list surges past 120,000 ahead of 1 November

The number of Australians waiting for a Home Care Package has jumped to 121,909 – up 26% in just three months – as fresh data reveals the full scale of the home care backlog.

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Lauren Broomham

10 Oct 2025

Sector Moves & People

Treasure Jennings appointed Aged Care Complaints Commissioner

Treasure Jennings, the current head of Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, has been appointed Aged Care Complaints Commissioner, effective 1 November 2025, just as the new aged care reforms take effect.

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Caroline Egan

09 Oct 2025

Opinion

Is prevention – and Hospital in the Home – the only cure for an ailing health system?

Australia needs more aged care beds and more Home Care Packages – but we also need to stop treating hospitals as the first and last resort. That means a focus on prevention – and on alternative models like Hospital in the Home.

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Lauren Broomham

09 Oct 2025

Home Care

Countdown to 1 November: renewing care plans for 25,000 Australian Unity clients a 90,000-hour task

With three weeks until the new Aged Care Act takes effect on 1 November, Australian Unity’s forecast it will take 90,000 hours additional hours of work to regenerate all 25,000 home care client contracts and care plans, and explain the changes to consumers, still holds.

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Caroline Egan

09 Oct 2025

Government Policy

Trickle of Home Care Packages set to become a flood with only weeks to 1 November 2025

The Federal Government is set to release more than 3,000 Home Care Packages a week over the next three weeks as it fulfils its promise to release 20,000 Packages by 1 November.

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Caroline Egan

07 Oct 2025

Home Care

“Not a single additional Home Care Package has entered the system”: Senate Inquiry slams delays

Deep in the Report on the Senate Inquiry into Aged Care Service Delivery, released on Wednesday, is a startling revelation. “It is completely unacceptable that at the time of writing this report, and more than three weeks after the Government...

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Caroline Egan

02 Oct 2025

Aged Care

Residential aged care use growing more rapidly than home care: regulator

The latest Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) Sector Performance Report shows that residential aged care use is growing faster than home care, despite Government policy being firmly focused on supporting older Australians to remain at home.

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Caroline Egan

08 Oct 2025

Aged Care

Westpac Leading Conversations: can aged care operators be more productive?

Where are the key bottlenecks in aged care? Aged care leaders Sandra Hills OAM, Matthew Filocamo, Faye Spiteri OAM, Caroline Lee and Brian Wong considered the question, and others, at the recent Westpac Leading Conversations at the Wharf lunch in Melbourne, hosted by Westpac and DCM Group.

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Caroline Egan

01 Oct 2025

Government Policy

Implementation of Royal Commission report “not on track”: Inspector-General of Aged Care

The Inspector-General of Aged Care’s 218-page 2025 Progress Report on the Implementation of the Aged Care Royal Commission Recommendations concludes the “transformative change” called for by The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is not on track.

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Caroline Egan

01 Oct 2025

Sector Moves & People

Former Optus CEO appointed head of Australian Unity

Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, who resigned as Optus Chief Executive in 2023 after the telco was hit by a cyberattack and a nationwide outage, will work alongside outgoing Austra;lian Unity MD & CEO Rohan Mead from 5 November 2025, taking up the top job on 15 December 2025.

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Caroline Egan

30 Sep 2025

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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Caroline Egan

24 Sep 2025

Government Policy

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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Caroline Egan

24 Sep 2025

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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Caroline Egan

24 Sep 2025