In 2020 unpaid care was estimated at three million unpaid carers in Australia that provide approximately $80 billion of unpaid care a year, that is $1.5 billion a week.

Momentum Collective, a local organisation that supports people with mental health issues, social housing, domestic and family violence, aged care, and disability care has gone into voluntary administration.

Healthy North Coast is pleased to announce the extension of the care finder program on the Mid North Coast and in Northern NSW for the next four years, ensuring vulnerable older people continue to receive support to interact with My Aged Care, access aged care services, and other relevant supports in the community.

Ageing Australia is warning more than 830,000 older Australians receiving Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) services will be left in limbo, following an 11th hour decision to require new service agreements, making transition to the new Aged Care Act on 1 July impossible.

Ageing Australia is calling on all parties to ensure aged care remains a national priority ahead of the federal election, addressing the workforce crisis, supporting transition to the new act, and improving access for older Australians.

St Andrew’s Village (George’s Cottages) Byron Bay will receive $3,595,733 in taxpayer funds to redesign 40 ensuites, remedy drainage issues and external repairs, and deliver targeted care to homeless residents

The fight to keep the Byron Bay Feros aged care facility as a quality aged care facility for the community has seen another milestone achieved with a 40-year lease awarded to the site’s new operator.

New South Wales Health reports that COVID-19 activity remains stable at a high level as Bupa Aged Care Ballina experiences an outbreak.

At least one former resident of the former Feros aged care village in Byron Bay, now known as George’s Cottages, is getting ready to move back.

As of January 29, a new era started at the former Feros Aged Care Village in Byron Bay, with St Andrew’s Village Ballina Ltd assuming management of the Marvell Street facility.