UTS Report: More profitable aged care homes less likely to be meeting care minute targets

The latest 153-page report by the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC) provides an in-depth picture of the residential aged care and home care sectors. One figure in the ‘Australia’s Aged Care Sector: Full-Year Report 2022-23’ stood out to us. In residential aged care, far fewer homes in the top 25% of providers in terms of operating results were meeting care minute targets. Only 5.3% of homes in the top 25% quartile in terms of operating results were meeting both the RN and total direct care targets, compared with 16.4% of providers in the remaining 75%. The discrepancy highlights what we are hearing around the significant cost for providers to achieve the mandatory care minute targets. Are those financial pressures acting as a disincentive to meet the requirements? You can read the report in full here.