Home and Community Support versus Residential Care Cost Comparison
Sapere Research Group / RNZ
Publisher: Radio New Zealand
Sector evidence
Sector body
August 2026
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New Zealand
High confidence
published
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Short Answer
RNZ reports headline findings from a January 2024 Sapere analysis for Health NZ comparing public spending on subsidised residential care and home and community support.
Key Points
- •Average Health NZ spend on a subsidised rest-home client in 2022/23 was about $65,000 a year.
- •Average spend per home and community support client was roughly $7,400, including in-between travel.
- •The populations receive different levels of care, so the figures cannot establish an efficiency saving.
- •The Aged Care Association disputes the comparison as cost displacement rather than proven efficiency.
- •Use the figures as a system-spend comparison only, never as a saving attributable to PiP.
Full Summary & Notes
RNZ reports headline findings from a January 2024 Sapere analysis for Health NZ comparing public spending on subsidised residential care and home and community support. The figures are directionally useful for ageing-in-place policy, but they are not a like-for-like efficiency comparison because the populations receive different levels of care and the comparison excludes costs borne by whānau and workers.
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