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Learn more about residential aged care and our communities in South East Queensland.
Raising this topic can be both emotional and challenging. These tips can help you break barriers, ease concerns and potential anxiety around future changes.
The Leisure and Lifestyle Coordinators also prepared table decorations with 50s milkshake bar vibes and great music videos.
Sneak peek time! Sponge cake and cappuccinos in the fresh air offered by the Lifestyle Team.
Learn how Nikki convinced her mum Sylvia to move to residential aged care. From being lonely at home, Sylvia found friends for life in Anam Care community.
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The two inseparable friends in their 80s were strangers when they arrived at Anam Cara just over a year ago.
Residents meet the team responsible for producing thousands of nutritious meals per week to feed our hungry communities!
Unsure about how to start the conversation about professional aged care with your parents? Here are some questions you might ask.
While the specific circumstances can vary from one family to another, here are some major signs to look for.
A thorough preparation for your ACAT assessment allows you to present a comprehensive and accurate overview of your needs, helping the ACAT team in making an informed decision.
Here we cover the types of questions that will be asked by an assessor, to help you prepare.
A simple summary of the aged care assessment process and how to book one.
An assessment plays a crucial role in determining the appropriate level of government funding and subsidies for aged care services available to you.
On Aged Care Employee Day, our residents share their thoughts on what their carers mean to them. Thank you to all WMQ aged care workers!
Celebrating a combined total of more than 900 birthdays!
Staff pulled out all the stops to ensure one resident in particular would not miss his first Anzac Day service.
If you have been referred to an assessment by My Aged Care, you will be visited by either the ACAT or the RAS team. Learn how these teams determine the level of care and support you require as you navigate the aged care system.
Aged Care Employee Day, is a time each year to recognise and celebrate those who care for our ageing family and friends.
Friendships play an important role at all stages of life and studies have found them to be critical for a healthy aging process. It has even been suggested that social contact is more beneficial than physical exercise and healthy habits (not smoking, weight management) for health and longevity.
Sometimes it is the small gestures that mean the most, and WMQ frontline workers have demonstrated this as they care for residents who have been in lockdown due to COVID-19.
Meet Donna, an Enrolled Nurse and a Workplace Coach for Wesley Mission QLD’s Kentish Court aged care community within Sinnamon Village at Sinnamon Park.