Topic - Aged Care

Opal HealthCare powers ahead with triple Victorian acquisition

Australia’s largest aged care operator, Opal HealthCare, has added three more homes to its Victorian footprint after completing the acquisition of Australian Aged Care Group (AACG) on 1 September 2025.

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Caroline Egan

09 Sep 2025

Government Policy

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

5 hours ago

Government Policy

Aged Care Minister writes to remind providers of staff training obligations

The Minister for Aged Care Sam Rae has written to aged care providers reminding them of their legislated requirement to ensure staff receive training, including rostered paid time to fulfil the obligation.

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Caroline Egan

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

8 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

8 hours ago

Government Policy

Pocock: Rationed home care “doesn’t make sense”

Following his Senate victory last week that forced the Government to commit to immediately releasing 20,000 Home Care Packages, ACT Senator David Pocock says he will continue to hold the Government to account on aged care.

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Caroline Egan

22 hours ago

Living with Dementia

Westmont CEO: “This is the hardest I’ve found aged care in 15 years”

“I’ve been working in aged care for 15 years directly and this is the hardest I’ve found it,“, says Tony Dunn, CEO Westmont Aged Care Services in Baranduda, Victoria. He has secured bank financing after twice being rejected by the Australian Government for grants to fund 30 dementia care beds.

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Redevelopments

Construction begins on Australia’s first timber aged care home

After a “long gestation,” work has finally begun on the extension and refurbishment of Hardi Aged Care Blacktown, 45km west of the Sydney CBD, architect John Flower has confirmed.

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Government Policy

Just 12% of aged care homes take up Govt funded on-site pharmacist

A year into the Federal Government’s $334 million on-site pharmacist program, fewer than 300 aged care homes have signed on.

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Caroline Egan

23 hours ago

Aged Care

Lutheran Services expands “proven” aged care nurse practitioner model

The Queensland Not For Profit is doubling down on its nurse practitioner-led aged care model, with new Federal funding set to expand the program across eight sites and provide proof it can ease pressure on hospitals and GPs.

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Caroline Egan

10 Sep 2025

Development

TLC reveals $490M five-year pipeline as $170M Melbourne healthcare precinct approved

TLC Healthcare has unveiled a $490 million development pipeline to be rolled out over the next five years, beginning with its most ambitious healthcare precinct yet – a $170 million development in Hallam, Melbourne.

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Ian Horswill

10 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Estia Health expands in Queensland with Vacenti Aged Care buy

Bain Capital-owned Estia Health has struck a deal to acquire Brisbane-based Vacenti Aged Care, adding six established homes and a new development nearing completion in Cleveland to its portfolio.

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Ian Horswill

10 Sep 2025

Not for Profit

National peak body Baptist Care Australia swallowed by BaptistCare

The peak body of the Not For Profit faith-based organisation is no more. Baptist Care Australia (BCA) team has joined the newly merged BaptistCare organisation after the national peak body representing Baptist community service organisations...

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Ian Horswill

05 Sep 2025