Weekly Source

Lowest number of aged care beds on record added in 2024-25

Residential aged care bed growth is being rapidly outpaced by demand, with resident numbers increasing by about 5,000 per year versus just 800 net new beds in 2024-25.

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Lauren Broomham

17 Oct 2025

Aged Care

StewartBrown’s Grant Corderoy: Time for courage – and a new rental model – to make aged care investable

At StewartBrown’s 2025 Sydney Finance Forum last week, Senior Partner Grant Corderoy set a clear challenge to residential aged care providers: show courage, reset business models, and force the policy conversation toward investability, not just viability.

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Lauren Broomham

16 Oct 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Only in SATURDAY: Respect’s quiet empire – 39 homes, one sale enquiry a week

Respect CEO Jason Binder says consolidation is “coming to us,” not the other way around – with boards approaching weekly as the regional NFP scales a 39-home network through selective acquisitions, a 90-day integration playbook, and a “profit for residents” philosophy.

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Lauren Broomham

16 Oct 2025

Government Policy

Home care wait list surges past 120,000 ahead of 1 November

The number of Australians waiting for a Home Care Package has jumped to 121,909 – up 26% in just three months – as fresh data reveals the full scale of the home care backlog.

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Lauren Broomham

10 Oct 2025

Development

RetireAustralia completes $40M expansion at Tarragal Glen, adding 42 premium apartments

RetireAustralia has completed a $40 million expansion of its Tarragal Glen Retirement Village on the NSW Central Coast, delivering 42 new one- and two-bedroom independent living apartments.

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Ian Horswill

29 Sep 2025

Community Living

Dementia crisis in retirement villages: no clear process, resident safety at risk, no answers

“Dementia is galloping.” That was a blunt assessment from one Queensland retirement village resident at a recent meeting of the Association of Residents of Queensland Retirement Villages (ARQRV). “Even younger people in their 70s are...

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Lauren Broomham

18 Aug 2025

Opinion

Aged care beds are running out. What’s the plan?

The numbers don’t lie: we are headed for a shortfall of aged care and hospital beds unlike anything we’ve seen before. As we report in this issue, in Western Australia alone, around 200 hospital beds a day are being occupied by older people who...

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Lauren Broomham

06 Aug 2025

Government Policy

“We need to build”: Aged care leaders call for capital reform and hospital discharge fixes

Australia needs 200,000 more aged care beds over the next 20 years – and aged care leaders say we won’t get there without tackling two big issues: capital access and hospital-to-aged care transitions, the IHACPA Conference aged care reform panel in Adelaide heard.

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Lauren Broomham

06 Aug 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

DA-approved aged care site in Western Sydney offered to market

An aged care development site in Sefton, 23km west of the Sydney CBD, has been listed for sale via Expressions of Interest through Health Aged Care Confidential and Ray White Commercial Western Sydney.

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Simon Owen pitches all-age rental villages: for purpose and an attractive cash yield

Providing rental accommodation is more challenging as the property is not sold. “We’ll get a significant valuation uplift which we can borrow against and free up some capital, but it (rental) consumes a lot of capital. Eureka is a capital hungry...

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Ian Horswill

01 Aug 2025

Technology

AlayaCare launches Layla to unlock AI-powered efficiencies for home care

Cloud-based home and community care solutions provider AlayaCare has launched Layla, an AI-powered conversational assistant designed to transform how home care teams access and use data.

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Lauren Broomham

30 Jul 2025

Home Care

RLC welcomes Senate inquiry into Home Care Package delays

The Retirement Living Council (RLC) has thrown its support behind a planned Senate inquiry into the Federal Government’s delayed rollout of additional Home Care Packages, saying it’s a critical opportunity to reset how care is delivered to older...

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Lauren Broomham

25 Jul 2025

Development

Christian Homes Tasmania to replace ‘not fit for purpose’ aged care home with retirement village

All Urban Planning, for XSquared Architecture, acting for Not For Profit Faith-based Christian Homes Tasmania has applied to Kingborough Council to demolish its first residential facility provided in Kingston, 16km south of Hobart, almost 55 years ago, and build 28 indepedent living units

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Ian Horswill

28 Jul 2025