14 aged care providers unite to tackle two sector issues


Thursday, 21 August, 2025

14 aged care providers unite to tackle two sector issues

Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) has announced the 14 aged care providers selected to implement evidence-based, innovative solutions to tackle two sector issues: workforce strategies and data literacy.

The announcement is part of the $2 million 2025 Flagship Projects grant program. Delivered through ARIIA’s Aged Care Collaborative and funded by the Australian Government and the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, the two flagship projects support aged care organisations to co-design and implement tailored interventions over a 12-month period.

Project 1: workforce strategies

As the aged care sector continues to face workforce pressures related to workforce retention, limited career growth, and staff burnout and workload, this project — titled ‘Enhancing Role Clarity, Communication and Career Pathways with a Flexible Leadership Model’ — believes that clarifying role scopes, lines of communication, and accountabilities, as well as providing more career progression opportunities, could improve staff collaboration, engagement and retention — improving quality of care and service provision.

Leveraging positive outcomes of a previous ARIIA grant-funded pilot project, a facilitated co-design process and improvement project will be implemented that incorporates staff, leadership, client and family feedback — with each participating aged care provider undertaking the project at one of their residential sites or home care regions.

Participating providers are: Australian Unity’s residential aged care facility, St Patrick’s Green, Sydney, NSW; Benetas’ residential aged care home, St George’s, Melbourne, Vic; Beaumont Care’s residential aged care facility, Kippa-Ring, Moreton Bay, Qld; Feros Care’s home care region, Gold Coast, Qld; integratedliving Australia home care region, Far North Coast, NSW; and Life Without Barriers’ home care region, Darling Downs, Qld.

Project 2: data literacy

Seeking to empower aged care staff with the knowledge, confidence and skills to enhance the use of data to improve care quality, the second project — titled ‘Empowering Data Literacy and Capability to Drive Quality Care’ — will focus on improving routinely collected data related to pressure injuries and wound care. To develop and implement a data-driven, evidence-based improvement project, each participating aged care provider will undertake a capability-building and co-design process with, again, each participating aged care provider undertaking the project at one of their residential sites or home care regions.

Participating providers are: Alwyndor’s residential aged care home, Adelaide, SA; Bolton Clarke’s home care region, East Melbourne, Vic; Elderbloom Community Care Centres’ residential aged care facilities, Perth, WA; Fronditha Care’s residential aged care facility, St Albans, Melbourne, Vic; Glow Health Care Australia’s home care region, Sydney and regional NSW; Lifeview’s residential aged care facility, Willow Wood, Melbourne, Vic; Regents Garden’s residential aged care facility, Scarborough, Perth, WA; and Warrigal’s residential aged care home, Wollongong, NSW.

The need for greater collaboration and multidisciplinary approaches

In a statement, ARIIA said the Flagship Projects were designed to address a need identified in the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety — that there were intractable problems that required greater collaboration and multidisciplinary approaches.

“Rather than working in silos, we need to encourage a more collaborative and innovative approach to solve the most difficult and pervasive problems. We want to offer more education and career pathways to aged care workers, better sharing of data to inform decisions, and better management of wound care and pressure injuries as this could improve quality of life for older Australians and reduce hospital admissions,” ARIIA CEO Reuben Jacob said.

“The Flagship Projects bring together providers from diverse contexts with the expertise to develop scalable solutions that can be adopted more broadly across the sector with the ultimate aim to improve the holistic wellbeing and quality of care for older Australians,” Jacob added.

Participating aged care providers were selected through an application and assessment process led by the Aged Care Collaborative Advisory Group. The advisory group comprises 16 leaders and policymakers from across the Australian aged care sector and ecosystem, and each participating provider will receive grants of up to $120,000, with 1:1 matched co-contributions.

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