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8 hours ago

Home Care

“Explain it calmly, price it scientifically”: Tom Symondson’s advice for Support at Home backlash

At the final Department of Health, Disability and Ageing webinar before the new Aged Care Act takes effect, Support at Home pricing dominated the closing Q&A.

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8 hours ago

“If we can fund AUKUS, surely we can fund rural aged care”: Upper Hunter to decide fate of Gummun Place

The Upper Hunter Shire Council will meet next Monday to determine the future of Gummun Place, a 16-bed aged care home in Merriwa, 300km north-west of Sydney.

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8 hours ago

Health Dept grants second eNRMC extension, avoiding aged care prescribing chaos

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has granted a further extension to the eNRMC transitional arrangements, allowing non-conforming Electronic Residential Medication Chart systems to continue issuing prescriptions until 31 December 2025.

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9 hours ago

Residential aged care still falls short on investability: EBITDA $6.8K vs $20K target

Residential aged care remains well below investable thresholds, according to StewartBrown’s FY25 survey, which puts average EBITDA at $6,817 per bed per annum (pbpa) a long way off the $20,000-$22,000 the firm says is needed to attract ongoing capital and deliver enough new beds for the Baby Boomer wave.

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9 hours ago

Mergers & Acquisitions

Bain lines up Gresham to run Estia Health sale alongside Barrenjoey

Bain Capital has reportedly added M&A advisory group Gresham to the ticket to find a buyer for Estia Health, Australia’s second-largest residential aged care operator.

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13 hours ago

Catholic Healthcare to close St Francis Aged Care in regional NSW

Catholic Healthcare will shut the 42-bed St Francis Aged Care in the NSW Northern Rivers, saying the 42-bed home is “no longer suitable for the future care needs of the community.”

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14 hours ago

Nurses’ union launches aged care review, alleges providers are gaming care minute targets

Australia’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), will conduct a nationwide “pulse check” of aged care, drawing on frontline feedback from nurses and care workers.

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14 hours ago

Development

St Jude’s Health Care Services’ Perth residential aged care expansion

Perth-based St Jude’s Health Care Services has been named as developer of the aged care facility to be built alongside Providence Lifestyle Wattle Grove retirement village, and the operator has also lodged plans to build a two-storey extension of its existing Midlands Nursing Home.

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16 Oct 2025

Support grows to keep CHSP beyond 2027

Calls are growing to keep the Commonwealth Home Support Programmed (CHSP) beyond 2027 – and the Government still has no plan or date to fold it into Support at Home.

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The three aged care bombshells from Senate Estimates

Last week’s Senate Estimates hearing – held just three weeks before sweeping reforms roll out – gave politicians the chance to ask Government heavyweights the questions they’re getting from constituents and to interrogate the once-in-a-generation changes.

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Aged care’s remoteness tool “not fit for purpose,” consultation finds

The Government’s review of the Modified Monash Model (MMM) – used to allocate rural, regional and remote aged care funding – has found the tool is “useful but limited” and, in its current form, “not fit for purpose” for aged care.

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Home Care

Countdown to 1 November: Home care customers “incredibly confused” by co-contributions

With the new Aged Care Act just two weeks away, Community Vision CEO Yvonne Timson says the Perth Not For Profit’s priority is helping its 150 Home Care Package clients make sense of new pricing and budgets.

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