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Anglicare Sydney has signed an agreement to acquire Infinite Care, an impressive, large-scale and growth-oriented residential aged care business, operating in QLD, NSW, VIC and SA, as well as Infinite Care’s in-progress acquisition of Autumn Aged Care in VIC. The agreement is expected to be completed around March 2026.
Together we’ll enable more older Australians to age in grace by creating something new in aged care.
This means we will double our overall aged care capacity to around 5,300 beds, 47 homes and ~7,400 staff across multiple states, taking our vision of loving life enriching care to more people in more places and in new ways, as a leading national Christian for-purpose residential aged care provider in Australia.
Why we are doing this
For almost 170 years, Anglicare has walked side by side with communities in need, including providing older Australians with whole‑of‑person care.
This agreement brings benefits to staff and residents and grows our capacity for the future:
- National scale: a large national footprint enables us to serve more residents, providing high-quality whole of person care that meets their individual preferences and changing needs. Residents will benefit from the combining of best practice from our organisations, as we create new and enhanced models of care. More staff will benefit from not-for-profit salary packaging, greater career opportunities, mobility between locations, investment in learning and development, including palliative care capabilities.
- Deeply Christian care: we will enhance chaplaincy and pastoral care services across Infinite Care homes, so residents and staff who wish can receive pastoral care and spiritual support alongside other personalised care. We look forward to building new partnerships with Christian churches in QLD, VIC, and SA, including connecting with more volunteers in those communities.
- Better together: we’ll learn from each other and share best practice to bring the best of Anglicare’s Rhythm of Life person‑centred approach and Infinite Care’s resident-focused care, to provide the highest quality and consistent care to residents.
- Stronger future: as a much larger residential care operator we’ll have a stronger voice in the sector and to government, it will enable us to be more efficient at scale, to be financially sustainable for the long term, and invest in our systems, people, innovate and continue to grow.
Why this matters
The number of Australians aged 85+ will more than double in the next 20 years, yet there has been limited growth in aged care beds across the sector.
The new Aged Care Act has increased compliance, making it harder for smaller operators to maintain quality of care, compliance, and address staffing needs while being financially sustainable to be able to invest and grow.
The acquisition also sets us up well for future growth with multiple sites for new developments.
For the wider Anglicare team, this means we are investing in the future and expanding our mission to new places and people. It is our intention that we will increase our investment in community services over time, as we benefit from the financial stability and growth provided by being a large scale operator in the sector.
What does this mean for residents and staff?
Residents and staff are our top priority, and the important message to residents is that there is no change to the consistency of care or those who serve them every day.
Together we have more than 5,000 older people to care for every day, so maintaining high quality care without disruption is critical. Our priority is to ensure the same quality of care residents know and rely on, every single day, continue as normal.
It is this shared commitment to caring for older Australians that unites us.
As we work together, we’ll learn from each other, share best practice, and bring the best of Anglicare’s Rhythm of Life person‑centred approach and Infinite Care’s resident-focused care, to create new and enhanced support to residents.
Given our strong capability in providing chaplaincy and pastoral care, we will expand this support to more homes, meaning more residents and staff will benefit from personal, spiritual and wellbeing care, if they wish.
When they join us next year, Infinite Care and Autumn Care employees will benefit from Anglicare’s not-for-profit status and employee benefits.
Our combined team will benefit from greater employee mobility, with more homes and locations to work including interstate, and more opportunities across the larger network.
An exciting future – let’s care together
As we look ahead to celebrating our 170 years next year, I’m very excited to see our mission grow into the future.
We will continue to respond and adapt to the changing needs of our time, recognising the critical role Anglicare plays in our communities.