Provider registration, Support at Home pricing and room prices for residential homes are national rules, and our Sydney aged care page covers the registration categories and the screening aged care workers need. What WA does its own way is the NDIS clearance some workers use: it comes from the Department of Communities' Screening Unit, the application starts in a DoTDirect account and is finished at a Driver and Vehicle Services centre, and the clearance is valid for five years across Australia. Our Perth NDIS provider page goes further into it.
The state contacts on a feedback and complaints page are WA's own. Advocare (opens in a new tab), a free, independent not-for-profit that has supported older people across WA since 1996, helps older people, their families and representatives sort out problems with aged care services (1800 655 566), including help to lodge a formal complaint with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, and answers the WA Elder Abuse Helpline (1300 724 679). The national Aged Care Advocacy Line, 1800 700 600, connects callers with the advocacy organisation in their state. If you also deliver health services, the Health and Disability Services Complaints Office (HaDSCO) deals with complaints about health, mental health and disability services in WA, though not services covered by the NDIS, and our Perth allied health page explains its code of conduct for practitioners without national registration.
The two health networks differ more in care needs than in size. On 30 June 2025, 3,982 of Perth South's 9,041 package holders were at Level 4, against 2,961 of Perth North's 8,548. Residential care is concentrated in a handful of councils: homes in Stirling had 2,127 residents that day, Melville 1,341, Wanneroo 1,086, South Perth 866 and Mandurah 810. By aged care planning region, Metropolitan North homes had 5,012 residents, Metropolitan South West 4,626, Metropolitan South East 3,633 and Metropolitan East 2,980. Families comparing homes in Melville and South Perth, which are neighbouring councils, may be choosing between places a short drive apart, so a rooms page that names the suburb, the nearest hospital and how visitors get there by car or Transperth gives them more to go on than a brochure.
Health networks and planning regions are how funders and referrers see the city; families search by suburb, and Perth's suburbs spread a long way. Wanneroo alone runs from Girrawheen up to Two Rocks. Grouping suburbs under the names people use, such as the northern suburbs, the western suburbs, south of the river, the Hills and Peel, and then listing them one by one, lets every reader find their own street and see where your coverage stops.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Perth providers by phone and email. WA stays on standard time all year, so Adelaide is 90 minutes ahead of Perth from April to October and two and a half hours ahead while South Australia is on daylight saving; we plan calls around Perth hours. We haven't built for a WA business or a Perth aged care provider. Our aged care client, Golden Years Aged Care Support, is in Northern Adelaide.