Mirus Industry Analysis (MIA) – November 2025 edition

Occupancy still rising, fuelled by a 20% increase of permanent admissions in October

Rob Covino presents Mirus Industry Analysis (MIA), a series of monthly insights into the key performance indicators and cumulative industry trends from the 90,000+ beds we monitor for financial sustainability. 

Welcome to the November 2025 edition.

Revenue

When analysing ADS and claiming activity, the more recent month is always artificially lower due to the nature of reassessment requests, which are typically uplifts, being backdated several weeks to their effective date. We see a month’s average funding rise through the following two months as uplift requests that were made in the initial month are actioned. This also applies to the measurement of ‘Days from Request to Reassessment’.

Occupancy

Another increase in occupancy was fuelled by a huge number of permanent admissions in October (8,232). Likely caused by consumers motived to get in under the previous payment rules and avoid a 2% retention fee on RAD payments. The 15,000 permanent resident admissions in September and October is roughly the same number as the previous three months of permanent admissions (June – August). Respite usage declined from the spike in the previous month but not all the way back to previous levels, as there was a clear consumer preference for permanent entry and 53% of respite residents converting to permanent.

Workforce management

Total care time increased from September to October and RN time also increased, with total time increasing by 5.68 % and RN time increasing by 4.17%. This increase in care delivery came at the same time as the subsidy price indexation, which saw the average daily subsidy for the sector increase by $9.23 or 3.06%.

About Mirus Industry Analysis (MIA) 

With one of the largest aged care databases in Australia, each month we bring you MIA – a monthly wrap up of insights captured from data covering 90,000+ beds.  

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