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Government considering low-cost funding to help aged care operators build: Sam Rae

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Aged Care

Aged care sector ‘ready’ for 1 November despite 150-plus last-minute documents

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More sleepless nights: nearly 2,800 hospital patients waiting for aged care

State Premiers warned last month there were about 2,500 older patients in public hospitals awaiting an aged-care placement. Today, that figure is closer to 2,800 – a 12% jump in a month – tightening the squeeze on already stretched acute beds.

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Hall & Prior and Amana Living take new aged care beds under WA Govt’s Time to Think program

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Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Residential aged care operators leaving money on the table

HELF and accommodation pricing are the two cash levers operators can control right now – so why aren’t more pulling them? In the current edition of SATURDAY digital magazine, we look at the options available - and why operators must be more courageous. Subscribe to SATURDAY.

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Home Care

CHSP provider Momentum Collective with 5,000 clients appoints voluntary administrator

Third Sector Australia Limited, trading as Momentum Collective, has entered voluntary administration, putting the future of 5,000 clients – including 674 receiving Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) services – under a cloud. FTI Consulting was appointed administrator on 16 October 2025.

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Taylor Fry awarded $655K to review IHACPA aged care pricing advice

The Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) has appointed consulting firm Taylor Fry on a $655,000 contract to independently validate its aged care pricing advice – continuing IHACPA’s long-standing annual quality-assurance practice.

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Prices for aged care homes in demand “far exceed” recent valuations

Aged care homes are selling for prices well above their most recent valuations, fuelling a surge in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity across the sector, according to aged care consultancy Pride Aged Living.

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Benetas acquires aged care site at Keyton’s Sherwin Rise retirement village in VIC

Benetas will develop, own and operate a new residential aged care home within Keyton’s Sherwin Rise retirement village at Wollert, 25km north of Melbourne’s CBD – extending a continuum of care to village homeowners and the broader North Melbourne community.

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AlayaCare acquires Nightingale Software to deepen its aged care footprint in ANZ

Aged, home and community care platform AlayaCare has acquired Nightingale Software, strengthening its position across Australia and New Zealand’s aged care, home care and disability sectors.

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27 Oct 2025

No excuse for providers to not be ready on 1 November: Aged Care Minister Sam Rae

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has told ABC radio the Aged Care Rules have been in place for “a significant amount of time” and the Government has been listening to and supporting to the sector, “so, there really isn’t an excuse from any provider to not be prepared for 1 November”.

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23 Oct 2025

Aged care consolidation continues: Regis Aged Care on the march

The ASX-listed operator has entered into binding agreements to acquire family-owned OC Health’s two remaining aged care homes for $45 million plus a $36 million liability for RADs. The purchase of Ocean Mist, in Torquay, a seaside town southwest of...

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