The Newsroom
Media coverage, announcements and updates featuring Mirus Australia.
15 Oct 26
Rise in short stays amid nine-year occupancy peak
Respite-to-permanent conversions declined in September despite more admissions for both, Mirus Australia’s latest snapshot shows.
15 Oct 26
Occupancy hits a nine-year high and strains every metric
Occupancy has hit a nine-year high, but Mirus Australia’s data shows a chain reaction for boards: tighter care minutes, costly agency labour, cautious regulation and no new beds. Pull one thread and the rest unravel.
15 Oct 26
Compliance is the floor. Clinical outcomes lag behind
Mirus Australia’s second ACE Index scores aged care 6.3 out of 10 and finds a profitable care business carrying loss-making accommodation. Boards face one question: what happens when care funding stops rising faster than costs?
13 Oct 26
No relief: Respite beds are disappearing as aged care fills up
As aged care occupancy climbs to record highs, short-term respite stays are becoming close to impossible to book, leaving carers with nowhere to turn when they need to attend to their own health.
12 Oct 26
Resi care scores 6.3 for efficiency
Quality is the highest-scoring measure in the residential aged care sector’s efficiency index, but financial sustainability only scored 5 out of 10.
10 Oct 26
Future of Ageing 2026 award winners announced
The 2026 Future of Ageing Award winners have been announced at a gala dinner in Sydney on Thursday.
23 Sep 26
AN-ACC’s diagnosis-blind design has a blind spot, and it’s costing dementia care its funding
A Mirus Australia review of 573 homes shows behavioural complexity is worth less to the funding model than physical dependency, and last year’s recalibration widened the gap.
23 Sep 26
Dementia funding class was the only cognition class cut in AN-ACC recalibration
New analysis of 573 residential aged care services has found the AN-ACC funding model responded more strongly to physical immobility than cognitive load, with Class 8, the classification covering many ambulant residents living with dementia, and the only cognition class to record a funding reduction in last year’s recalibration.
11 Sep 26
Care minutes fall as respite days, room prices rise
Mirus Australia’s latest data snapshot finds the margin between required and delivered care minutes is the lowest to date.
27 Aug 26
Burnout pushing workers away, not pay rates
Polling by Mirus Australia shows that while most aged care workers are leaving due to burnout, a third of respondents are unsure why their staff leave and just 36 per cent regularly measure staff morale.
26 Aug 26
Half of aged care providers admit they’ve lost staff they could have kept
More than half of Australian aged care providers say they’ve lost a staff member in the past year they believe they could have kept, and new polling suggests burnout, not pay, is the biggest driver of turnover.
14 Aug 26
Metropolitan aged care occupancy passes 94% as admissions fall and room prices surge
Occupancy across metropolitan aged care services has passed 94 per cent for the first time in more than a decade, despite a sharp fall in new permanent admissions.
14 Aug 26
Metro homes see record-breaking occupancy
Alongside occupancy passing 94 per cent in metropolitan homes, the sector saw the highest number of homes reprice their rooms, which Mirus Australia has attributed to the start of the new financial year.
14 Aug 26
Metro aged care occupancy hits 94% as admissions slump and room prices surge
The latest Mirus Australia Industry Analysis, covering July 2026 data, shows national occupancy rose for a sixth consecutive month to 93.54%, up 0.28 percentage points on June.
17 Jul 26
Care minutes rebound, occupancy reaches new high
Mirus Australia head of data and insights Tyler Fisher says the lift in care hours across all categories in the same month is not a rostering accident but a deliberate response to rising occupancy and case mix.
12 Jun 26
Mirus: Aged care room price now over $600,000
Mirus Australia's new Accommodation Pricing Report reveals a new record high average for Refundable Accommodation Deposits.
09 Jun 26
Aged care occupancy reaches nine-year high as room prices top $600,000
Australia’s residential aged care sector has reached two significant milestones, with national occupancy climbing to its highest level in nine years and average advertised room prices surpassing $600,000 for the first time.
09 Jun 26
Occupancy reaches nine-year peak of 93 per cent
Occupancy has reached its highest levels since May 2017, while average room prices exceed $600,000, Mirus Australia’s monthly data snapshot shows.