Analysis: two-tiered system emerging for aged care

By Timna Jacks
Updated March 2 2015 - 10:13am, first published 9:56am
Boyd Fraser and his mother Valerie Fraser at the non-profit Darvall Lodge Nursing Home in Noble Park. Photo: Wayne Taylor
Boyd Fraser and his mother Valerie Fraser at the non-profit Darvall Lodge Nursing Home in Noble Park. Photo: Wayne Taylor
Data shows the for-profit residential aged care sector has grown at more than double the rate of its non-profit equivalent. Photo: Rob Homer
Data shows the for-profit residential aged care sector has grown at more than double the rate of its non-profit equivalent. Photo: Rob Homer

Australia is facing the emergence of a two-tiered system in residential aged care, with the commercial sector dominating major cities and the non-profit sector operating in outer regional and remote locations.