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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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Nurses’ union challenges Opal HealthCare on reporting of care minutes

The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMF) has launched a dispute against Opal HealthCare in the Fair Work Commission, alleging the aged care giant is not transparent in how it records mandatory care minutes.

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Funding

21 aged care homes’ worth of hospital patients stuck waiting for discharge

As Premiers and Health Ministers battle Canberra over hospital funding, a new report has revealed a key reason costs are surging: thousands of older Australians remain stranded in hospital beds because there’s nowhere else for them to go.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Hall & Prior acquires Lake Cathie Manor for 15th aged care home in NSW

Hall & Prior has added another home to its growing New South Wales portfolio, acquiring Lake Cathie Manor, a 129-bed aged care home on the state’s Mid North Coast that only opened last year.

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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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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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02 Oct 2025

Government Policy

National aged care worker registration scheme inching forward

The Australian Government has released a summary of its consultation on a national registration scheme for personal care workers, a recommendation of the Aged Care Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

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02 Oct 2025

Development

Only in SATURDAY: workforce the new factor in feasibility equations

Today, workforce plays an equally important role. To find out how aged care leaders, including Matthew Filocamo, CEO of For Purpose Aged Care, and Sandra Hills OAM, CEO of Benetas, factor workforce into their feasibility studies, read our latest...

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02 Oct 2025

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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Mergers & Acquisitions

Roshana Care Group acquires closed aged care home in regional NSW

Perth-based aged care operator Roshana Care Group will reopen Rosedurnate Aged Care, in Parkes, a town 355km west of Sydney, which The Salvation Army closed in 2024. The 70-bed home will be refurbished before reopening in the first quarter of 2026. Parkes Mayor Neil Westcott said “wonderful news”.

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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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Seven of 10 aged care homes do not offer Voluntary Assisted Dying information: Go Gentle Australia

A survey by Go Gentle, the Not For Profit advocate for end-of-life choices founded by broadcaster Andrew Denton, has determined that 85% of aged care providers do not offer Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) or information about the option, despite VAD being legalised in every state.

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