Hundreds of senior Victorians needing aged care beds will benefit from a $188 million plan to redevelop almost 300 aged care beds in high-need areas and boost health services.

Minister for Aged Care Gavin Jennings said the Budget included $130 million for aged care facilities including:

•          $25 million for a new development at Grovedale, which will deliver 108 redeveloped beds to be managed by the McKellar Aged Care centre;

•          $21.8 million for the redevelopment of Warracknabeal Aged Care (Stage 1), which will include 60 residential aged care beds and the construction of a new kitchen to prepare meals-on-wheels;

•          $34.5 million for a 100-bed facility at Doveton in the City of Casey, replacing beds from Yarraman Nursing Home and Kingston Centre that will not meet the Commonwealth Government's 2008 Aged Care certification requirements;

•          $23.5 million for an upgrade of the Caulfield General Medical Centre;

•          $25.5 million to the Kingston Centre to upgrade the production kitchen to enable the centre to deliver meals to public hospitals and other sites across the southern suburbs.

Another 30 high-care residential beds will also be provided as part of the $21.7 million Rochester operating theatre and hospital redevelopment.

To help meet a shortage of aged care beds in the inner suburbs, the Government will establish a pilot Aged Care Land Bank to help build more places in Melbourne's inner and middle suburbs.

Mr Jennings said surplus State Government land in Coburg and Preston would be offered to not-for-profit aged-care providers at concessional prices.

The initiative, at a net cost of $4.8 million to the Government, will help establish new centres in Melbourne's inner and middle suburbs, where land is scarce.

The State Budget also allocates $53.2 million for increasing the number of services for older people including:

•          Additional services to enable older Victorians to continue independent living in their homes, such as community nursing, allied health, meals on wheels, home handyman and other in home support services;

•          New measures to prevent elder abuse, promote community awareness of the problem and provide community legal services for older Victorians;

•          An additional 1,200 personal alerts to meet the rapidly growing demand;

•          Additional funding for the University of the Third Age.