There is still no sign of the Government’s response to the Aged Care Taskforce recommendations, yet the business of aged care reform continues at full pace, with the Government releasing the feedback on the Exposure Draft of the Aged Care Act and its response to David Tune’s review of the aged care regulator.
Southern Cross Care Queensland has partnered with Southern Cross Care Broken Hill on a new partnership as the outback community seeks to find solutions for its full hospital beds – is a new accommodation option required? See my opinion piece below.
And supermarket giant Woolworths has revealed plans for an aged care facility after community consultation revealed demand for the service.
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A broken system in Broken Hill: time for a new aged care accommodation solution?
By Lauren Broomham
With its hospital and aged care beds full, the NSW outback town of Broken Hill is a microcosm of what is happening in communities across the country – is a ‘low care’ alternative the answer?
Award wage aged care workers receive 3.75% pay rise
By Caroline Egan
The Fair Work Commission has announced its Annual Wage Review decision, with a 3.75% increase for the National Minimum Wage and the 121 Awards across the economy, including the Social Community, Home Care and Disability Services Award 2010 (SCHADS), the Aged Care Award 2010, and the Nurses Award 2020.
38 issues highlighted on Exposure Draft of the new Aged Care Act
By Caroline Egan
The Department of Health and Aged Care has released an 89-page Consultation Feedback Report on the Exposure Draft of the new Aged Care Act, revealing "largely positive" responses from stakeholders but some concerns, such as gaps in the Exposure Draft around fees, payments and subsidies and the potential for proposed statutory duties to deter people from working in aged care.
"I can't work out why this is not front-page news": Home Care Packages farce
By Caroline Egan
Liberal Party MP Aaron Violi, the Member for Casey in the outer south east suburbs of Melbourne, introduced a Private Members Motion on Monday calling on the Federal Government to issue more home care packages.
Is your workforce ready for AI Clinical Supervision? Catch up with the discussion at DCM Group's Conversations at the Wharf with Ausmed
By Caroline Egan
Leaders from the home care and residential aged care sectors met for lunch at DCM Group's Balmain East offices, Sydney, recently, to discuss workforce readiness for novel technologies like 'AI clinical supervision'?
Beyond fresh food people: Woolworths plans 126-bed aged care home after residents' push
By Caroline Egan
For the first time in its history the supermarket giant, which recorded a total net profit after tax of $1.72 billion in the 2023 financial year, is going to "deliver" an aged care facility.
Providers left carrying costs as 18% of aged care homes impacted by COVID-19 outbreaks
By Caroline Egan
The latest COVID-19 wave continues to take its toll on residential aged care, with more than 2,500 resident cases recorded for the week to 23 May 2024 and more than 1,000 staff cases. It was the highest number of recorded cases in residential aged care in a year.
Only in SATURDAY: do land lease resorts’ customers want care?
By Caroline Egan
Like retirement villages, the land lease resorts sector has long been regarded as a ‘property play’. However, its ageing customers are demanding more, including care, and operators are caving in.
All 32 recommendations of David Tune’s Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission Capability Review accepted
By Caroline Egan
14 months after David Tune handed the Government his Capability Review of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC), the Minister for Aged Care Anika Wells has announced all 32 recommendations will be accepted.
The Australian Government’s first assessment report on its Care Finder Program (CFP), which is receiving $234 million in taxpayer funding over three years from 2022-23, reveals a highly valued service for a vulnerable cohort of clients, but one that is hampered by a shortage of aged care beds and housing options that could threaten the program’s very existence.
Apollo Care buys The Bays Aged Care on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula with a promise
By Ian Horswill
Aged care bed numbers will be boosted and services enhanced as the business without a head office continues to grow and save regional residential aged care homes from closure.
Arcare Aged Care revealed as purchaser of 1ha former Maryville Hostel in Victoria
By Caroline Egan
The family-run Knowles Group, which owns Arcare Aged Care, has been revealed as the buyer of Not For Profit Mercy Health's former Maryville Hostel, which occupies a 1.04ha site in Boronia, 30km east of the Melbourne CBD.
BaptistCare provides construction update on Elderslie project in Sydney's south west
By Caroline Egan
The Not For Profit's 96-bed BaptistCare Elderslie aged care home, which is located about 65km south west of the Sydney CBD, is scheduled to open its doors early next year.
Is Veterans’ Affairs Community Nursing model the future of home care?
By Caroline Egan
A study by the Department of Veterans' Affairs which compares its Veterans' Affairs Community Nursing (VACN) to Home Care Packages (HCP) found VACN clients remain at home for longer before moving into residential aged care, delivering cost savings to the Australian Government of more than $1 billion over five years.
SafeWorkSA begins audits of South Australian aged care homes
By Caroline Egan
Compliance checks will be conducted on private and Government-owned residential aged care facilities by the state’s safety regulator on how staff use equipment such as hoists, patient lifters, stretchers, wheelchairs and slide sheets to move residents with limited mobility from one location to another.
BlueCare opens refurbished Toowoomba aged care home
By Caroline Egan
BlueCare, which is owned by Not For Profit Uniting Care Queensland, has opened the $18.9 million refurbishment of its 111-bed BlueCare Toowoomba aged care home, 125km west of Brisbane.
Ibis Care acquires The Palms aged care home in Sutherland Shire
By Caroline Egan
The For Profit aged care provider, which has operated aged care homes in Sydney's south for nearly 20 years, has bought The Palms, a 58-bed aged care facility in Kirrawee, 25km south of the Sydney CBD, from Palms Aged Living Management.
