Private aged care operator Roshana Care Group is undertaking a $59 million expansion across multiple sites in the Perth metropolitan area, adding hundreds of new aged care and independent living beds as the company builds on more than two decades of growth in Western Australia’s seniors housing and care sector. The privately owned group, which operates aged care, mental health care and retirement living facilities across WA and Queensland, has multiple projects progressing simultaneously across the eastern and southern suburbs of Perth.
The expansion comes as Australia’s aged care sector continues navigating significant structural change, with an ageing population driving sustained demand for residential aged care places even as the industry adapts to reformed quality and funding standards introduced in recent years.
What’s Being Built
Roshana’s largest current project is a $14 million expansion of its Valencia aged care home in Carmel, roughly 23 kilometres from Perth’s CBD, growing the facility to an 80-bed operation. In Midland, about 12 kilometres east of the city centre, the company is building a new $3 million independent living community offering low-care accommodation across four to six-bedroom units, adding 33 beds specifically designed to support residents transitioning from its existing Burswood Care facilities.
A larger project is progressing in Victoria Park, just three kilometres from the CBD, where Roshana is working on design detail for a $22 million, four-storey, 120-bed aged care home that will require demolishing the existing building on the site before construction begins, with a build permit application targeted for lodgement in the first quarter. The company has also earmarked a further $20 million for a new aged care facility in Lesmurdie, though a start date for that project has not yet been set.
A Track Record of Growth Through Acquisition
Roshana’s current expansion builds on a track record of growth through both new development and acquisition, including its 2020 purchase of an aged care facility west of Perth from Baptistcare WA, itself following an earlier acquisition of three aged care facilities and a retirement village from the same operator, now run under Roshana’s Burswood Care subsidiary. That pattern of steady consolidation and expansion has positioned the group as one of the more active private operators in WA’s aged care market.
Why Aged Care Investment Is Accelerating
WA’s ageing population, alongside broader national demographic trends, continues driving sustained demand for both residential aged care beds and lower-care independent living options, giving operators like Roshana a clear commercial rationale for continued investment in new and expanded facilities. Industry analysts note that private operators with an established local track record and existing relationships with regulators and planning authorities are often better positioned to navigate the lengthy approval and construction timelines aged care developments typically require compared to newer entrants to the sector.
Delivering Amid Construction Cost Pressures
Like other major construction projects currently underway across WA, Roshana’s expansion is proceeding amid a genuinely tight construction labour market, with the state continuing to record some of the most acute trades shortages in the country. Aged care developments carry their own specific construction complexities beyond standard residential building, including stringent accessibility, safety and clinical design requirements that add further demand on specialist construction expertise already stretched thin across WA’s broader building sector.
What It Means for WA Families
For WA families navigating aged care decisions for elderly relatives, the expanded bed capacity across Roshana’s Perth facilities offers additional choice within a sector where demand has often outstripped available places in preferred locations. As the projects progress through design, approval and eventual construction, the practical benefit for WA seniors and their families will become clearer once new beds begin coming online, expected progressively over the coming years as each stage of the expansion reaches completion.
Balancing Care Types Across a Portfolio
Roshana’s expansion notably spans both higher-care residential aged care and lower-care independent living options, a deliberate portfolio mix that allows the group to support residents across different stages of the ageing journey, from relatively independent seniors through to those requiring more intensive clinical support. Industry operators increasingly favour this kind of diversified model, recognising that a resident’s care needs often evolve over time, and being able to transition someone between different levels of care within the same operator’s network can offer both continuity of care and commercial advantages for the provider.
The company’s mental health care operations, alongside its aged care and retirement living portfolio, further diversify its overall business, reducing reliance on any single service line as it continues expanding its footprint across Perth’s eastern and southern suburbs.
As each project progresses through its respective planning, approval and construction milestones, Roshana’s broader expansion offers a useful case study in how established private operators are responding to WA’s sustained demand for aged care and seniors housing, investing steadily across a spread of suburbs rather than concentrating solely on a single flagship development.
With multiple sites at different stages of design, approval and construction, the group’s next milestones will likely centre on securing final build permits for its Victoria Park development and confirming a start date for the Lesmurdie project, both of which remain earlier in the pipeline than the Carmel and Midland works already underway.
