Home and Community Care Centre of Excellence

Technology-enabled care

Digital health, telehealth, AI, assistive technology and smart home systems are reshaping care at home.

1.82m

People projected to require home and community care across Australia by 2044.

400,000

dditional care workers may be needed to support Australia's growing care needs by 2050.

67,100+

Additional Aged and Disability Carer jobs projected to be needed across Australia by 2035.

About the Centre

Shaping the future of care at home

The way Australians receive care is changing. More people are choosing to remain living independently at home for longer, while advances in digital health, assistive technology and new models of care are creating opportunities to deliver services in different ways.

The Home and Community Care Centre of Excellence brings together industry, education, research, technology and community to respond to this change. Based at Holmesglen's Moorabbin campus, the Centre will help translate innovation into practical workforce capability, supporting the skills, knowledge and confidence needed for the future of home and community care.

Funded by the Australian and Victorian Governments, the Centre is part of a national network of TAFE Centres of Excellence working to strengthen Australia's skills and training system.

About the Centre

$20.67m

Investment in the Home and Community Care Centre of Excellence.

Moorabbin

Holmesglen campus location.

National

Part of Australia's network of TAFE Centres of Excellence.

Living laboratory

A living laboratory for care, learning and innovation

At the heart of the Centre will be the Smart Home Living Lab and Virtual Smart Home, environments where new technologies, training approaches and models of care can be explored in realistic home settings.

The Smart Home Living Lab will provide a practical environment for exploring adaptive technologies, remote care, automation, workforce learning and emerging models of care.

The Virtual Smart Home will extend access beyond the physical Centre, supporting technology-enabled learning and workforce development across Australia.

Together, these environments will help learners, educators, researchers, care providers, technology specialists, consumers and carers understand how innovation can work in everyday care.

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What we do

Turning innovation into practical capability

The home and community care sector does not simply need more technology. It needs effective ways to turn innovation, research and new models of care into skills that can be applied confidently in the workplace.

The Centre will connect expertise from across the care ecosystem to help move ideas from research and testing through to learning, workforce capability and industry adoption.

Innovation and research

Explore emerging technologies, care models and practical solutions through applied research and real-world testing.

Industry partnerships

Bring care providers, technology organisations, researchers and educators together to address shared sector challenges.

Future-ready workforce

Build the practical, digital and human capabilities needed for increasingly complex and technology-enabled care.

Digital adoption

Support the responsible adoption of smart home technology, remote care and digital tools in everyday care practice.

How the Centre creates impact

From innovation to everyday care

The Centre will help move promising ideas beyond demonstration and into practical workforce education and industry practice.

Holmesglen capability

Why Holmesglen?

Holmesglen brings together expertise across home and community care, health, construction, applied research, immersive and simulation-based learning, technology and vocational education.

This combination provides an opportunity to look at home-based care as a connected system, bringing together the person, workforce, technology and home environment rather than considering each in isolation.

Through the Centre, Holmesglen can connect education with industry and research, turning emerging approaches into practical skills and workforce solutions that can be shared more broadly across the sector.

1. Care expertise

2. Smart environments

3. Applied research

4. Simulation learning

5. Industry connections

6. Scalable VET delivery

Collaboration

Work with the Centre

The Centre is being built through collaboration. We are bringing together organisations and people from across home and community care to explore challenges, test ideas and build practical solutions for the future.

Industry partnerships

Work with the Centre on workforce development, technology adoption, training and solutions to emerging care challenges.

Explore industry partnerships

Industry partnerships

Research and innovation

Collaborate on applied research that explores technology, workforce capability and new approaches to home and community care.

Explore research and innovation

Research and innovation

Get involved

Connect with the Centre as a care provider, technology partner, researcher, educator, consumer, carer or community organisation.

Connect and Get involved

Connect and Get involved

Partnerships

Connecting the care ecosystem

The Centre brings together education, research, industry and government to strengthen collaboration and help translate innovation into practical workforce capability and care.