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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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Aged Care

AN-ACC class reweighting leaves AdventCare $192K short of budget

David Reece, CEO of Not For Profit AdventCare, which operates two aged care homes in Victoria, said overall the AN-ACC changes announced last Friday afternoon will leave them $50,000 short of budgeted income this year.

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WA’s Shire of Manjimup seeks sale of aged care assets

The Shire of Manjimup Council has voted unanimously in support of a plan to seek Expressions of Interest for the Council’s aged care services, include home care, Moonya Aged Care Home (run by BaptistCare), and land promised for a future aged care home.

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Sam Rae visits Illawarra as region faces nation’s highest rate of ‘bed block’

Federal Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has visited Wollongong to meet with community and industry leaders in a region estimated to be 1,000 aged care beds short.

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Development

$29M renewal of Lutheran Aged Care Albury’s Dellacourt delivers for half the cost of a new build

Lutheran Aged Care Albury has completed a $29 million, 4.5-year renewal of its 120-bed Dellacourt aged care home on the NSW-Victorian border – achieving a contemporary facility for about half the cost of a new build.

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Govt releases “final major version” of Support at Home Manual – but key details still missing

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (DOHDA) has released Version 4 of the Support at Home Program Manual – but with less than seven weeks to go before the 1 November start date, critical details are still to come.

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Legal Issues

Heritage Care found not guilty over deadly COVID-19 outbreak in 2020

A jury has found Victorian aged care provider Heritage Care did not breach the state’s Occupational Health and Safety laws by not properly training staff to use personal protective equipment (PPE) before a deadly COVID-19 outbreak.

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States step up pressure on Fed Govt as 2,500 hospital patients wait on aged care beds

State and Territory Health Ministers have called on the Federal Government to accelerate the delivery of aged care beds, warning hospitals are being clogged with older patients who have nowhere else to go.

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SA launches ‘geriatric flying squad’ to clear aged care hospital backlog

The South Australian Government has unveiled a new Geriatric Outreach Service – dubbed a “geriatric flying squad” – to help move older patients out of hospitals and into aged care.

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Living with Dementia

Dementia now Australia’s leading cause of death

Dementia accounted for the deaths of nearly 17,400 Australians in 2023, or 9.5% of all deaths, exceeding the number of deaths from coronary heart disease for the first time, according to data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

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