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Aged care providers wait for AN-ACC price decision – again

12 months after the Government gave operators just two weeks’ notice of an increase in the Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC), providers are once again left on tenterhooks. In December 2023, then-Minister for Aged Care Anik...

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Lauren Broomham

3 hours ago

Opinion

RIP: We are seeing the death of the family-run aged care operator

It feels like I am writing an obituary to family-run aged care facilities. Once the backbone of the sector, multi-generation operators are now selling out at a pace not seen before. The sell-off is accelerating, with three landmark deals in just two...

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Lauren Broomham

6 hours ago

Aged Care

“Hope is not a strategy” – Tom Symondson warns aged care sector

The clock is ticking to 1 November. With the new Aged Care Act just weeks away, Ageing Australia CEO Tom Symondson has a blunt message: optimism isn’t enough. In an exclusive interview with SATURDAY, Tom named three hurdles that providers must...

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Lauren Broomham

6 hours ago

Out of the Ordinary

SATURDAY knows the future: No RAC, no DMF – the future of retirement living

Scalabrini CEO Richard de Haast is rewriting the rules with Harbourside, a $60 million waterfront project that swaps outdated funding models and RAC beds for customer choice, future-proofed apartments and private care safety nets. Why is this...

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Lauren Broomham

09 Sep 2025

Partnering With Westpac

January–June 2025 Aged Care & Retirement Living Sector Review: Key Developments, M&A Activity, and Emerging Trends

Introduction Australia’s aged care and retirement living sectors experienced significant transformation in the first half of 2025, driven by landmark Government reforms, increased regulatory scrutiny, and strong market activity, including mergers...

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Lauren Broomham

05 Sep 2025

Home Care

Clients left without services as providers warn of ‘slow death’ for CHSP

The human cost of aged care reform has been laid bare at the Senate Inquiry into Aged Care Service Delivery, with ACT provider Community Options warning that vulnerable clients are being left without support as smaller operators exit the system.

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Lauren Broomham

04 Sep 2025

Opinion

Between a rock and a hard place: more Packages won’t fix home care

Aged Care and Seniors Minister Sam Rae and Health Minister Mark Butler have bowed to political pressure, announcing 20,000 additional Home Care Packages will be released before 1 November, with another 20,000 to follow by 2026. It makes for a powerful headline but the truth is uncomfortable.

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Lauren Broomham

04 Sep 2025

Home Care

StewartBrown: Home care prices must rise further to be “investable”

Australia’s home care sector is heading for a pricing crunch under the new Support at Home (SaH) program, with fresh analysis from StewartBrown showing providers will need to lift service prices by at least 30% to stand still – and even higher to achieve a return that makes the sector “investable.”

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Opinion: Can operators survive? Only with Plan T

Aged care and retirement living are in the middle of a deal-making frenzy. From Regis’ $339 million Rockpool acquisition to Not For Profits quietly trading villages, mergers and acquisitions are no longer the exception – they’re the rule. The...

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Brownfield is the new gold

With just 6,500 beds built across the aged care sector in the last four years, investors are chasing existing homes as they look to build scale. Forget shiny new developments. In today’s aged care market, brownfield is the new gold. Deals are...

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Regis’ big bet on growth

Regis Managing Director and CEO Linda Mellors is steering Regis towards 10,000 beds by FY28. But with limited stock, soaring build costs and pressure on RADs, the path forward is as much about policy as strategy. Australia’s largest listed aged...

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Regis’ $339M Rockpool deal shows why acquisitions outpace builds

When Regis Aged Care agreed to acquire four Rockpool aged care homes for a gross price of $339 million, the deal turned heads across the sector. At $565,000 per bed, it underlined just how scarce premium facilities have become – and why the...

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Home care M&A: everyone wants to buy, no one wants to sell

Compliance, competition and razor-thin margins are forcing providers to think bigger – even as real acquisition opportunities remain scarce. The home care sector is on the cusp of a shake-up. Transactions are still small compared to aged care and...

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Lauren Broomham

29 Aug 2025