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It’s a topic of discussion here this week after a Flinders University study found smaller more home-like facilities provide a better quality of life for residents, particularly for people with dementia. The researchers compared the health outcomes and costs for over 500 residents in 17 facilities across Australia – one-quarter of whom were living in…

It’s a topic of discussion here this week after a Flinders University study found smaller more home-like facilities provide a better quality of life for residents, particularly for people with dementia. The researchers compared the health outcomes and costs for over 500 residents in 17 facilities across Australia – one-quarter of whom were living in…

During our recent re-accreditation, the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency randomly surveyed some of our residents as part of their consumer experience audit requirements. Check out the Consumer Experience Report to find out what our residents actually think of living in our world first residential aged care microtown™.

The health slice of the workforce pie is growing with no end in sight. Melanie Burgess reports. THE healthcare and social assistance sector is taking over the workforce, growing its share of workers from 8 per cent to 13 per cent in the past three decades. It is one of nine sectors that have increased…

INNOVATION OF THE YEAR – CARE MODEL WINNER: The House Companion™ Support Worker model by NewDirection Care, Bellmere, Australia for best care model implementation that demonstrates improvement in quality of life for older adults.

Shaynna Blaze knows how to create stunning spaces. The interior design extraordinaire has made an illustrious career based on raw talent, meticulous attention to detail, and good old fashioned hard work.

This golden generation of retirees has created a new housing market: downsizers who don’t want the simple life. 7plus.com.au @ErinEdwards7 #7News

After four years of operation, a pilot program has convincingly shown that capital and operational costs of delivering aged care into a community of houses are comparable to traditional aged care. So since September last year the first residents have started moving into what has been dubbed an “aged care micro-town”.

Rose, 92, who lives at NewDirection Care (Australia’s first aged care microtown in Bellmere, Queensland) has a special bond with her daughter-in-law Karen, which they will be celebrating on Mother’s Day this Sunday.

An alternative aged care model with a focus on wellness, “revolutionary non-institutionalised schedules, services and lifestyle options” for Australian seniors with complex care needs, including those with younger onset dementia, was named a finalist in the recent and prestigious SilverEco and Ageing Well International Awards.