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There are 3,000 older people waiting in hospital for an aged care bed or adequate support in their home, state and territory leaders have estimated, and with just 800 new beds delivered during 2024-25, the problem is worsening.
There was a glimmer of hope when the federal government offered $2 billion to tackle the problem of older people being left in hospital due ...
The net profit position of the residential aged care sector improved between the first quarter of 2024-25 and the same period in 2025-26, according to the Quarterly Financial Snapshot for 1 July to 30 September 2025.
However, 35.5 per cent of providers were still unprofitable as defined by net profit before tax (NPBT). On a positive note, it is a slight improvement ...
The Commonwealth Home Support Program and Support at Home “don’t meld together as one program, other than if you wanted to just change the name of one,” Professor Kathy Eagar has told Monday’s Senate inquiry hearing into the merging of the two programs.
The two are “incompatible ideas,” with CHSP using a grant funding model and Support at Home using an individualise...
Speaking at Monday’s Senate inquiry hearing into the Commonwealth Home Support Program’s move to the Support at Home program, aged care peak body chief Tom Symondson was clear that the sector was not ready to transition home care into a single program.
“We are definitely not ready,” the chief executive officer of Ageing Australia said. He added that he was “very con...
The home care sector saw relatively positive results in the StewartBrown September 2025 Aged Care Performance Survey Analysis, with an operating profit of $4.70 per client per day for the July-September quarter, up from $3.77 per client per day in the financial year ending June 2025.
Revenue utilisation also increased from 88.2 per cent to 89.6 per cent – which Stew...