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It includes both residential aged care (nursing homes) as well as services provided in the home such as personal care, domestic assistance, home nursing, nutrition and meal preparation, respite services, [2] continence management, mobility & dexterity assistance, transport, social support and the provision of equipment and aids.
In 2022, the organisation acquired Allity aged care with its 70 residential homes across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, and in 2023 McKenzie Aged Care joined the Group with a further 17 communities. The organisation provides a 24-hour home nursing and home care service to people throughout Australia and New Zealand. [8]
ii. in remote, rural and regional Australia; (d) what the Australian Government, aged care industry, Australian families and the wider community can do to strengthen the system of aged care services to ensure that the services provided are of high quality and safe;
Allity is an accredited Residential Aged Care Provider [1] founded in March 2013 with 45 locations in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. [2] [3] The homes offer all levels of permanent and respite care allowing for aging in place as well as providing secure dementia facilities.
Catholic Health Australia represents 75 hospitals and 550 residential and community aged care services and comprises Australia's largest non-government not-for-profit grouping of health and aged care services. Catholic Health Australia was established by the Roman Catholic Church in Australia as the representative body of these health and aged ...
Expenditure on aged care by all governments in 2009-10 was approximately $11 billion. [19] The need to increase the level of care, and known weaknesses in the care system (such as skilled workforce shortages and rationing of available care places), led several reviews in the 2000s to conclude that Australia's aged care system needs reform.
Blue Care is an agency of UnitingCare Queensland, the health and community arm of the Uniting Church in Queensland, Australia.Originally established as the Blue Nursing Service by the Methodist Church in 1953, it has grown into one of the largest not-for-profit providers of residential aged care, community care and retirement living in Queensland and northern New South Wales. [1]
It has been described as a turning point for aged care policy in Australia. It led to an increase in private investment. Private equity firms, new foreign investors, and superannuation and property real estate investment trusts all entered the Australian residential aged care market.