2025 Year in Review: Aged Care
Construction of new beds is languishing, consumers are waiting up to a year for home care, and the new Single Assessment system has failed to keep pace with need.
Construction of new beds is languishing, consumers are waiting up to a year for home care, and the new Single Assessment system has failed to keep pace with need.
In short, the sector has moved from growth mode into fiscal restraint – just as providers are absorbing the cost and complexity of the new Aged Care Act.
The peak body states, as The Weekly SOURCE has reported, the increased demand for aged care services is not being met by increased supply. StewartBrown maintains the aged sector is “not investable”.
The 93-year-old resident of Morrie Evans Wing Nursing Home fell backwards when the back of her reclining chair detached as a staff member tried to move it.