Aged Care Industry Updates

Care & Living with Mercer will transition to Care & Co Match by 30 November 2025, ensuring long-term growth and continuity for a service that helps Australians navigate aged care, home care and retirement living. Care & Co Group will expand the program’s reach across employers, super funds and financial advisers while keeping support seamless for current users.

mecwacare has opened a new aged care home in Richmond to help older residents remain in their inner-city community as demand grows across Yarra. John Hood Terrace offers 77 suites in a restored heritage building and reflects the provider’s push to support ageing in place with connected, high-quality care.

A new Juniper white paper reveals a steep rise in ageism among older Western Australians, echoing national findings from the Australian Human Rights Commission and highlighting barriers in access, respect and aged care navigation.

Delays in moving older Australians from hospital to aged care are driving major cost blowouts across the health system. New analysis shows each stalled discharge adds $6,661 in avoidable spending and increases the risk of premature entry into residential care. As slow reform and system gaps push pressure from aged care onto hospitals, leaders face mounting financial, operational and clinical consequences.

Juniper’s recently released white paper highlights that ageism is on the rise. Equally of importance is the call for a collective honouring of the purpose, personality and skill that seniors want to bring to those around them. Respecting and including seniors is a moral and strategic reality for Australia.

Thousands of seniors are medically ready to leave hospital but cannot because aged care beds are scarce. Families and frontline staff say the pressure is reaching breaking point.

Queensland’s Glenella Care will join not-for-profit provider Respect from December, ensuring continuity for residents and staff while strengthening aged care in regional Australia.

Baptist Care unveils brand new Sydney RAC facility adding 96-beds to profoundly needed RAC capacity.

Senate announces two new inquiries into aged care reforms. The transition away from CHSP and the structure of Support at Home are to be closely examined, as well as their potential impacts on seniors and the nation.

After more than a decade and hundreds of millions spent, My Aged Care’s latest redesign raises the same question: has anything really changed?