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The Aged Care Sector Committee has released its recommendations to the federal government to create a single aged care system covering home-care and residential care over the next five years.

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After 22 years as the House of Representatives elected representative for the Sydney seat of Mackellar, Bronwyn Bishop has been dumped as the Liberal candidate for the forthcoming election in favour of Jason Falinski who for the past 20 years has been the founder and managing director of CareWell Health. It markets furniture and health aids for the aged care sector.

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Last week the private aged care group Arcare announced it will grow its number of beds from 2,600 across 27 care facilities to 4,000 within two years. Comparing this with Japara and Estia’s stock exchange listing, Arcare will be valued north of $700 million. This will be the second fortune made by brothers John, Russell and Graham Knowles and Ian Ball.

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Some good news: The medical world has targeted 2025 as the year that a dementia cure will be achieved – just 10 years from now.

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Australia joins the United Kingdom, Malta, South Africa and other countries on Friday 17 June 2016 for International Aged Care Open Day. The idea is to promote and showcase local aged care facilities and the positive work done by the staff. ACSA CEO John Kelly says “ACSA Open Day is about connecting people and connecting services.

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