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How to Prepare for Your ACAT Assessment Educational articles

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.

Tags: Ageing well, Home Care, Residential Aged Care, Respite, ACAT Assessment

ACAT assessment and funding types you might be eligible for Educational articles

An ACAT assessment plays a crucial role in determining the appropriate level of government funding and subsidies for aged care services available to you.

Tags: Ageing well, Home Care, Residential Aged Care, Respite, ACAT Assessment

What is a RAS assessment? Educational articles

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.

Tags: Ageing well, Home Care, Residential Aged Care, Respite, ACAT Assessment

Questions asked in an ACAT Assessment Educational articles

During an ACAT assessment the assessor will ask a series of questions. Here we cover the types of questions that will be asked, to help you prepare.

Tags: Ageing well, Home Care, Residential Aged Care, ACAT Assessment

What is an ACAT Assessment? Educational articles

A simple summary of the ACAT assessment (Aged Care Assessment Team) process and how to schedule an assessment.

Tags: Ageing well, Home Care, Residential Aged Care, ACAT Assessment

Aged Care Employee Day - in the words of our residents Stories

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!

Tags: Ageing well, Home Care, Residential Aged Care, Video

Take a guess at how many residents have reached 100 years at our Parkview aged care community Stories

Celebrating a combined total of more than 900 birthdays!

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Parkview Aged Care Community

A special Anzac Day celebration at Emmaus Residential Aged Care Community Stories

Staff pulled out all the stops to ensure one resident in particular would not miss his first Anzac Day service.

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Anzac Day, Emmaus Residential Aged Care, Video

Aged Care Employee Day - it's all because of you Media release

Aged Care Employee Day, is a time each year to recognise and celebrate those who care for our ageing family and friends.

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Video

You've got a friend in me Stories

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.

Tags: Residential Aged Care, John Wesley Gardens Aged Care

Celebrating life's joys in lockdown Stories

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.

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Anam Cara Residential Aged Care

A day in the life of a workplace coach in residential aged care Stories

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.

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Kentish Court Residential Aged Care

Judith's story - Kentish Court Testimonial

The staff are wonderful here. They’ve been so supportive. When you are having issues with pain or you are sad, they’re there for you and they’re lovely. They seem to work well as a team and I can’t speak highly enough of them.

Tags: Residential Aged Care

A blanket donation to brighten your day Corporate news

We’ve been blown away by the generous donation from Women’s Creative Centre, a craft hub at Greenslopes Mall. They handed over 40 hand-knitted, colourful crocheted blankets to Wesley Mission Queensland Sinnamon Village residents on Tuesday.

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Rosemount Retirement Village

Ice cream to the rescue Stories

When John Wesley Gardens aged care community had to close its café due to COVID-19 restrictions, residents thought it was also farewell to the much-craved ice-cream fridge. However, staff put their heads together to create an ice-cream cart!

Tags: Residential Aged Care, John Wesley Gardens Aged Care

Jan's story - Cooper House residential aged care community Testimonial

It’s the security - the security of knowing that if you’re not feeling well, you can talk to someone who knows what to do. And then they come back and ask you how you are. It’s comforting.

Tags: Residential Aged Care

The Wheller Gardens Auxiliary remembers the late Barbara Wood Stories

Barbara Wood, a kind and dedicated member to our Wheller Gardens community, passed away in early May 2020. Barbara was the President of Wesley Mission Queensland’s Wheller Gardens Auxiliary Garage Sale, which has been operating for over 40 years.

Tags: Fundraising, Residential Aged Care, Volunteering

Aged care residents create a penpalship with NSW bushfire affected community Stories

Residents from Wesley Mission Queensland’s Cooper House aged care community in Chermside have picked up the pen and become old-fashioned pen pals with residents in the bushfire-affected community of Bowraville in New South Wales (NSW).

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Cooper House Residential Aged Care

Aged care residents use their time wisely by learning more about dementia Stories

Residents at Cooper House residential aged care community, who have been spending their time wisely by doing a free online course in understanding dementia through University of Tasmania.

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Cooper House Residential Aged Care

Technology with heart Stories

It was an extra special day for aged care residents Delys and Joyce at Wesley Mission Queensland’s Cooper House community, as they celebrated their 100th and 99th birthday.

Tags: Residential Aged Care, Cooper House Residential Aged Care

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