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Caroline
Egan

Aged care assessments like a “lottery” with Department forced to reallocate referrals

The Department of Health, Disability, and Aged Care has intervened in redirecting delayed aged care assessments to organisations that have “greater capacity”, following reports 120,000 older Australians are on the waiting list to be assessed.

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Caroline Egan

4 hours ago

Aged Care

Westpac Leading Conversations: do aged care operators have the ambition to drive change?

Do aged care leaders have the ambition to drive change? Aged care leaders Sandra Hills OAM, Matthew Filocamo, Faye Spiteri OAM, Caroline Lee and Brian Wong considered the question, and others, at a recent Westpac Leading Conversations at the Wharf lunch in Melbourne, hosted by Westpac and DCM Group.

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Caroline Egan

4 hours ago

Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Roshana’s next chapter – betting on regional care and medical integration

Roshana Care Group CEO Dr Rosh Jalagge is turning his focus to the regions – reopening closed homes, building GP-led health hubs and creating vertically integrated care ecosystems that link aged care, primary care and mental health. Read the full feature in the new issue of SATURDAY, out tomorrow.

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Caroline Egan

5 hours ago

Aged Care

Disability SA Northgate aged care home rated 5 Stars for compliance despite being monitored over misuse of physical restraints

Disability SA Northgate,. an aged care home in northeast Adelaide, operated by the South Australian Department of Human Services, has been placed under heightened supervision after an inspection in May 2025 identified issues related to the service’s continued misuse of restrictive practices.

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Caroline Egan

6 hours ago

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

6 hours ago

Development

Opal HealthCare to start construction on co-located Clayfield Terrace Care Community, Brisbane

Australia’s largest aged care provider Opal HealthCare has announced it will begin construction on the 133-bed Clayfield Terrace Care Community aged care home adjacent to Aveo’s Clayfield Retirement Living village in Brisbane, next year.

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Caroline Egan

6 hours ago

Aged Care

Just 54% of metro aged care homes meet care minute targets ahead of penalties

Just over half of metropolitan aged care homes are meeting both of the Australian Government’s mandatory care minute targets, despite financial penalties set to begin in less than six months.

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Caroline Egan

19 hours ago

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

22 hours ago

Aged Care

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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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

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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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

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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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

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