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Aged care is undergoing a major leadership shift as long‑serving CEOs depart and a new wave of commercial, digitally savvy leaders step in. Discover what this changing of the guard means for the sector’s future direction.
Our latest industry analysis shows a clear upward trend in aged care accommodation prices across 2025. From December 2024 to December 2025, advertised room prices increased by 12 per cent over the year, with over 2,200 homes raising their highest advertised prices and more than 2,400 homes increasing their lowest prices.
The latest Care Minutes in Residential Aged Care Dashboard (Department of Health, January 2026) provides a clear snapshot of how Australian residential aged care homes are performing against mandated care minute requirements. At Mirus, we know these numbers aren’t just metrics — they are indicators of workforce strategy, resident care quality, and funding risk.
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On the surface, some parts of aged care reporting look simple. Take resident counts, for example. How many people are currently in care? Easy — it’s a head count.
But as every aged care provider knows, what sounds simple rarely is.
As the expectations for transparency and workforce accountability continue to strengthen across residential aged care, the Care Minute Performance Statement (CMPS) is becoming a core element of provider reporting.
The aged care sector has made remarkable progress in meeting mandated care minute targets under the AN-ACC funding model, with strong improvements recorded over the past year.