Home Care

Awards

Nurse Next Door home care services named Franchisor of the Year with phenomenal five-year growth story

In 2019, Nurse Next Door was a single local operation in Australia, but today the franchisor has a national network of 57 franchise partners, 77 territories, and nearly 3,000 caregivers, and is on track to be in 100 territories by the end of the year.

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Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on Care recommends merging aged care and NDIS

The Productivity Commission (PC)’s Interim Report on Delivering Care More Efficiently, written at the request of the Federal Government and published ahead of next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable, recommends a single regulator across aged care, the NDIS and veterans’ care in six years.

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What is the Henry VIII provision in the new Aged Care Bill?

The only hearing of the Senate Inquiry into the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025 and Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 (ACOLA) was held last Friday in Canberra, allowing little time, and at short notice, to interrogate the Bills.

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Sector Moves/People

Nick O’Callaghan named CEO of home care provider integratedliving

The former Executive General Manager of Australian Unity, and Interim CEO of myHomecare Group, has been appointed to lead the Not For Profit home care provider.

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Legal Issues

Home care operator Annecto placed in liquidation, may have traded while insolvent

At a second Creditors Meeting held on Monday this week (11 August 2025), disability and home care support services provider Annecto was officially placed into liquidation after 70 years in operation.

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ACH Group’s new ads inspired by real-life experiences of home care clients

Leading South Australian home care provider ACH Group has launched a new advertising campaign highlighting the everyday challenges of ageing and the positive impact of home care services. CEO Linda Feldt says the campaign was, “Inspired by customer insight”.

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Australian Unity ad campaign “rewrites the rules of living”

Australia’s largest home care provider, Australian Unity, has launched a new advertising campaign, with CEO Prue Bowden saying they aimed to challenge outdated perceptions of ageing and celebrate older Australians.

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Disability support platform Hireup enters home care market

Hireup, Australia’s largest NDIS-approved online platforms for disability support workers, has expanded to provide a much-needed home care workers, with co-founder and CEO Laura O’Reilly saying, “We can deliver workforce capacity at scale without compromising on quality or continuity.”

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Housing News

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Uniting NSW.ACT secures $1.75M grant for social housing energy upgrades

Uniting NSW.ACT has received $1.75 million from the Australian and NSW Governments to deliver energy-efficient upgrades – including hot water heat pumps, reverse-cycle air conditioners and solar panels – across 300 of its community housing units.

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18 Aug 2025

Sector Moves & People

Catholic Health Australia CEO Jason Kara resigns

After two years leading the peak advocacy body for Australia’s largest non-government group of health, aged and community care services, Jason Kara has announced his resignation.

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Housing

Older women targeted for affordable housing plan in Melbourne’s southeast

Community Housing Ltd has proposed a 13-storey apartment tower in Dandenong, 29km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD, offering 86 homes for vulnerable groups. The application, prepared by Squareback Planning and designed by Cera Stribley, for a Ministerial Permit states the proposed development would target older women experiencing homelessness, veterans at risk of homelessness, victims of family and domestic violence, and frontline workers employed locally.

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Community Living

Not For Profit Sylvan Glades plans expansion of retirement village in Yarra Ranges, VIC

Plans are progressing for an expansion of the Sylvan Glades Retirement Village in Monbulk, 42km east of Melbourne’s CBD, with community meetings already held to discuss the proposal.

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$800 a week, no parking: Mirvac opens fourth BTR in Brisbane

Mirvac has officially opened LIV Anura, its fourth Build to Rent project and first in Queensland, with rents starting at $800 per week for a furnished one-bedroom unit without parking.

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04 Aug 2025

BlueCHP to deliver senior-friendly social housing on Sunshine Coast by 2026

Construction is underway on a new five-storey social housing development in Birtinya, in the growth suburb of Kawana Waters, 100km north of Brisbane.

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04 Aug 2025

NSW Govt backs Vivacity’s plan to redevelop Central Coast caravan park

Vivacity Property, the developer and operator behind Natrium Coral Cove in Innes Park (Bundaberg), Tallowood Medowie in Port Stephens, and Stratford Gardens in Tahmoor (Macarthur region), has previously flagged plans for a $230 million redevelopment...

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28 Jul 2025

Government

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RLC’s Daniel Gannon tells Economic Reform Roundtable: retirement system stuck in the past

Retirement Living Council Executive Director Daniel Gannon has told the Federal Economic Reform Roundtable that Australia’s retirement system is failing to keep pace with demographic and economic realities.

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Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on Care recommends merging aged care and NDIS

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What is the Henry VIII provision in the new Aged Care Bill?

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SA Govt doubles capacity at Adelaide’s Pullman Hotel as aged care residents in hospital hits record high

As of 11 August 2025, there were 287 patients stuck in South Australian hospitals waiting for an aged care bed - the highest number ever recorded. SA Health Minister Chris Picton has announced capacity of the state’s Transition Care Service at the Pullman Hotel will double.

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Exclusive: Department releases Support at Home templates for service agreements

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has released templates for new services agreements and a range of other materials to help home care providers meet their obligation of establishing or varying agreements with customers in preparation for the rollout of Support at Home on 1 November 2025.

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Community Living

Active Utilities powers Living Choice’s retirement villages with new community battery rollout

Living Choice Australia has partnered with energy solutions provider Active Utilities to deliver large-scale community batteries at its Fullarton and Flagstaff Hill retirement villages in Adelaide – part of a push to give residents cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy.

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Legal Issues

WA’s amended Retirement Villages Act signals major shift in operators’ obligations

Amber Crosthwaite, Partner specialising in Care and Living at WA legal firm Lavan, says the amendments to the Retirement Villages Act 1992 (WA) formally separate capital maintenance from capital replacement – a change that significantly alters operators’ financial and governance responsibilities.

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Aged Care and Seniors Minister seeks extension on Senator’s request for information

The Aged Care Minister’s office has sought an extension on the request last week in the Senate from Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne for the release of all communication between the Department and the Minister’s office about aged care assessment wait times and the financial impact on consumers of the incoming reforms.

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07 Aug 2025

Home care leaders on not having any new Home Care Packages

New Home Care Packages are only being released when someone on a package passes or enters residential aged care. With 87,597 older Australians waiting for the level of Home Care they have been assessed as needing in the March quarter, providers are bearing the brunt.

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07 Aug 2025

Health

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Ageing

SATURDAY sounds the alarm: Dementia is ‘galloping’ through retirement villages

Dementia rates in villages are climbing fast – but with limited staff, legal barriers to moving residents, and no clear safety net, operators risk being caught off guard. Where are the biggest risks – and what’s being tried to fix them? Find out in this week’s SATURDAY, our premium digital magazine.

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Sector Moves & People

Former Newcastle Lord Mayor and prominent developer Jeff McCloy dies aged 75

The builder behind Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital and several major retirement village projects has been remembered for his vision and love of the Hunter Region. He passed away, surrounded by family and friends on Queensland’s Gold Coast, at 1pm...

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30 Jun 2025

Aged Care

Aged care COVID-19 cases hit 12-month high as 34 die in one week

As winter conditions settle in, the number of aged care staff and residents who contracted COVID-19 in the last week increased 14% to more than 2,000, with outbreaks in 268 homes.

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26 Jun 2025

Funding

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Uniting NSW.ACT secures $1.75M grant for social housing energy upgrades

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18 Aug 2025

18,650 social and affordable homes funded as 370 homes repurposed

The Australian Government’s flagship Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) has agreed to fund 9,284 social and 9,366 affordable homes through 279 successful projects under the first two funding rounds of the HAFF and National Housing Accord Facility...

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04 Jul 2025

Funding

Aspen Group aimed to raise $4M – but could have taken $18M

The ASX-listed affordable accommodation provider, which has 10 active projects, announced a Security Purchase Plan (SPP) on Wednesday, 28 May, offering existing investors the opportunity to acquire up to $30,000 in Aspen Group securities without...

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16 Jun 2025

Funding

Land lease operator GemLife’s IPO to surpass Virgin Australia, with 3 July listing confirmed

Adrian Puljich, his father Peter and Singapore diversified company Thakral Corporation opened talks on the possibilility of becoming a publicly listed business in April. A prospectus for the float will be lodged with the Australian Securities and...

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16 Jun 2025

Technology

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SA Govt doubles capacity at Adelaide’s Pullman Hotel as aged care residents in hospital hits record high

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Government spending on aged care external contractors grows by another $68 million

The Weekly SOURCE takes a look at some of the most significant recent Australian Government contracts awarded by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, the Independent Hospital and Aged Care Pricing Authority, and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, totalling.$68 million.

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07 Aug 2025

Please explain? Aged care sector’s digital readiness questioned three months from reform rollout

A slide presentation accompanying the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s 7 July 2025 ‘Digital Transformation for the Aged Care Sector’ meeting has detailed questions provided on notice about the sector’s digital maturity, raising serious concerns about readiness ahead of the new Aged Care Act on 1 November.

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30 Jul 2025

Technology

AlayaCare launches Layla to unlock AI-powered efficiencies for home care

Cloud-based home and community care solutions provider AlayaCare has launched Layla, an AI-powered conversational assistant designed to transform how home care teams access and use data.

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30 Jul 2025

Technology

Turn the Support at Home delay into a head start: AlayaCare webinar

With just over 3 months until the rollout of Support at Home, home care software platform AlayaCare is encouraging providers to use the time gained with the postponement of the new Aged Care Act to get ahead. To help providers, AlayaCare is hosting a webinar on 31 July..

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24 Jul 2025

Accenture awarded extension on $4M contract for My Aged Care training

Accenture Australia has been awarded a $265,000 extension on its Government contract for My Aged Care training, taking the total value of the contract to nearly $4 million.

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23 Jul 2025

Sector Moves & People

Daniel Pilbrow resigns as CEO of AI care platform InteliCare for a new job

Daniel Pilbrow, CEO of ASX-listed InteliCare has accepted a senior leadership role with one of Australia’s largest aged care providers, and will step down in October 2025.

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23 Jul 2025

Consultant Liquid Interactive earns nearly $30,000 per day to operate and update My Aged Care for reforms

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has awarded digital consultants Liquid Interactive a $476,432 extension on its contract to “operate and enhance” My Aged Care making the total contract worth $27 million, or nearly $30,000 per day.

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16 Jul 2025

Mable denies AFR report the care platform is up for sale

Mable CEO and Co-Founder Tony Charara has denied reports in The Australian Financial Review that US private equity firm General Atlantic is looking to sell its stake in the aged and disability care platform.

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