Welcome to VMCH Star of the Sea Aged Care Residence, Torquay.Located near Torquay’s beautiful beach, Star of the Sea Aged Care Residence provides quality aged care for up to 96 residents in a modern, welcoming environment. Our community is active and engaged, with physio-led fitness classes, walking groups, and many programs to keep residents socially and physically active.
The on-site café, open to residents and the public, serves delicious barista-made coffee and a variety of treats. With a toybox and children’s books, it’s a hit with visiting grandkids too!
Co-located with a vibrant retirement village, Star of the Sea offers ‘ageing in place,’ allowing village residents to transition smoothly into aged care when needed. Our team supports every step, enhancing wellbeing and independence.
Discover the elegant Bupa Ballarat, a modern care home located in Delacombe in South-western Ballarat. Our home has five resident communities, each with a dedicated team to look after your care needs, including two for people living with dementia.
Outdoors our home has spacious courtyards and landscaped gardens for you to relax and enjoy with family and friends.
When you step inside, you will find our sophisticated lounge and activity rooms including a library for your entertainment. For your spiritual needs we have a chapel with regular services led by different denominations.
Your activitiesYour passionate lifestyle team are committed to providing you with a range of activities for you to get involved with. Some activities that you will have the opportunity to get involved with include: cultural and spiritual activities, cognitive activities including puzzles, exercise sessions, community events, in-home entertainment, and movies.
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Contemporary, spacious and welcoming.
The Vue is designed with an idyllic balance of community and privacy in peaceful and familiar residential setting, at the doorstep of the scenic Surf Coast. Generous interiors balance areas for me-time with social spaces for entertaining. Expansive views reach out to the Yu Yangs and Geelong City while innovative, sensory gardens add colour and leafy outlooks.
An incredibly committed team offer every level of service ranging from delicious dining and social activities, to individualised health care. A premium memory care centre is beautifully designed with abundant natural light, high ceilings, secure garden surrounds and all the comforts of home.
Uniting AgeWell Kalkee Community, Nangatta, offers dementia-specific and mainstream specialist care and support in a comfortable and welcoming environment.
The renovated, modern residence in Belmont, Geelong, has 51 spacious light filled rooms with built-in wardrobes, including single or shared ensuite bathrooms.
Nangatta has a dynamic and engaging lifestyle program focussed on wellbeing and reminiscence, and a large lounge with café-style coffee facilities where residents can catch up with friends and family.
Uniting AgeWell recognises that everyone’s needs are different. Our focus is on supporting you to experience a sense of wellbeing, choice and independence at every age and stage of life, to feel a valued member of your community and to have easy access to the services you need to live the life you want.
So whether you need a little help with everyday living or more intensive support, our flexible and responsive services ensure you can get the best out of life, no matter where you are on your ageing journey.
We offer:
24-hour, high level clinical care delivered with dignity and respect by qualified and experienced staff
Dementia-specific and mainstream specialist care and supportPalliative care
Dedicated chaplain on site to provide pastoral and spiritual care
Access to allied health services including podiatry, physiotherapy and speech therapy
Modern central lounge and dining areas and television lounges
Chapel area for worship and celebration times.
Uniting AgeWell is a fully accredited, experienced aged care provider committed to its values of respect, partnership, wisdom, fairness and stewardship.
Just 15 minutes from the centre of Geelong, Mercy Place Rice Village is a warm, friendly community providing comfort, care and a great lifestyle.
Our caring staff offer a range of activities to keep you energised and engaged. Get your hands dirty in our seasonal vegetable garden or relax with friends among the colourful flowerbeds that adorn our village. You can even enjoy refreshments with your family at our on-site replica pub.
Live life your way at Mercy Place Rice Village — the perfect blend of independence and support.
With a prime position on the shores of beautiful Lake Wendouree, residents of Nazareth House Ballarat are inspired by vistas of the changing seasons and abundant wildlife.
Whether enjoyed from the comfort of an armchair, through picture windows facing the lake, or the front seat of one of our "tri" bikes, part of our "Cycling Without Age" program, this is one of the many reasons you will enjoy living in our community.
At Nazareth House we offer a continuum of care from independent living apartments through to specialised care services.
Set within a beautiful garden environment, you are able to use the extensive outdoor areas for relaxation with family and friends. The House is also conveniently located close to all amenities.
The quality service we provide is embedded in our values. The Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth provides spiritual and emotional support to residents who elect.
Your comfort and security are enhanced in the knowledge that you have nursing, personal care and support available 24 hours per day.
Our services include:
• Individualised person-centred care - both permanent and respite
• 24/7 Registered Nurses on site
• Visiting Allied Health professionals
• Lifestyle and Wellbeing programmes with regular social activities
• Highly qualified and experienced employees
• A strong sense of community
• Pastoral care - including daily mass and rosary with other denominations' services regularly available• Independent Living Units on-site
• Chapel
• Library
• Hairdressing salon
• On site kiosk
• Specialist dementia and memory support unit
• Palliative care
• Warm, caring, homely environments
• On-site chef oversees daily preparation of a variety of delicious, fresh, home-cooked meals, to provide a personalised dining experience.• On site laundry facilities
• Safe, secure and superbly maintained facilities.
Come and be part of the 120-year history of care in Ballarat provided by the Sisters of Nazareth.
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198 bed Aged Care facility located in two Aged Care homes on the McKellar CampusWallace Lodge is a 108-bed facility - a memory support unit for dementia specific residents. Blakiston Lodge is a 90-bed facility - caring for people with dementia and mental illness and offers a safe and secure environment. quality nursing, medical and psychiatric support for residents.Both lodges feature spacious design, contemporary colours and decor, along with natural lighting and connection to the external courtyards. The beautiful garden settings enhance emotional wellbeing and offer a sense of tranquillity.
Mercy Place Colac offers a warm sense of community that comes with country living.
Soak up the fresh air in our beautifully landscaped gardens that feature a gazebo and barbecue, or get to know our farmyard’s feathered residents. The ducks, geese, turkeys and chickens are particularly friendly at feeding time!
Our caring staff offer a range of activities to keep you energised and engaged — gentle morning exercise, bingo, happy hour, cards, carpet bowls, gardening and knitting groups, or perhaps you might like to share quality time with family and friends in the communal lounge.
Live life your way at Mercy Place Colac — the perfect blend of independence and support.
mecwacare Elstoft House is located in the Geelong suburb of Hamlyn Heights and offers 91 lovely rooms, the majority of which have ensuite bathrooms and several with views of Corio Bay. Recent renovations have created a fresh and contemporary feel, and include a brand new café and library. A vibrant activities calendar is very much enjoyed by our residents in a safe and welcoming community environment. Activities include singing, cooking, sewing and gardening for those with a green thumb. Find out more today by calling 03 8573 4812. With over 60 years’ experience and homes across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, mecwacare is a leading not-for-profit organisation with a reputation for excellence and where caring is at the heart of everything we do.mecwacare aged care homes feature:
• Welcoming community
• Experienced and caring staff
• Safe and secure environment
• Registered nurses rostered on every shift
• Fresh meals by in-house chef
• Vibrant lifestyle programs
• Modern, quality and comfortable features
• Over 60 years' experience
• Not-for-profit organisation
At Mercy Place Warrnambool, you’ll find caring staff, friendly faces and support to live life your way.
You’ll discover an environment designed to keep you engaged, connected and living life to the full. Try your hand at art, cooking or gardening activities, or simply sit back with a cup of tea and have a chat at the café; it’s your choice.
Our caring staff offer a vibrant social schedule with weekly roasts, bingo, billiards competitions, art classes, visits from local entertainers and bus outings. You’re also welcome to share quality time with family and friends in the communal lounge areas and gardens.
Our close-knit rural community and compassionate care team can support you to live life well, the way you choose. Mercy Place Warrnambool — the perfect blend of independence and support.
Ocean Mist located on the coast, provides a warm, comfortable environment to live. We ensure that residents are provided the time and support. Ocean Mist offers residents requiring a variety of needs including, respite, palliative and memory support unit. Spacious single & adjoining rooms with ensuite bathrooms, manicured gardens, stimulating indoor and outdoor activities, fresh homemade food and rooms furnished with personal mementos. At Ocean Mist, we are committed to providing high quality, professional care to our residents and look forward to assisting you and your loved ones during this transition and on an ongoing basis.
At Mercy Place Ballarat, our innovative small household living approach promotes independence, choice and relationships. Featuring 14 households of eight residents supported by a dedicated team of carers, Mercy Place Ballarat has been purposely designed to create a warm and inviting place where residents and their families can feel right at home. We are proud to provide high-quality care and accommodation where residents can feel safe, empowered and valued. There are a broad range of stylishly designed room options spread over three floors. Each household features open-plan living and dining areas with modern kitchens, laundries and private outdoor spaces. The contemporary design, natural light and stunning views at Mercy Place Ballarat make it the perfect place to relax with family and friends. Residents can attend events, join clubs, visit our wellness centre or enjoy our gardens. The village square has everything you need right outside your front door, including a café, grocer, chapel, hairdresser and library. At Mercy Place Ballarat you will also find a pub with an outdoor balcony, a club lounge with a large terrace, a men’s shed and a craft room, offering the perfect opportunity to connect with the activities and people you love.This Mercy Place home offers residents additional services.
Located in the vibrant regional centre of Ballarat, Mount Clear offers a modern, warm and welcoming environment. With heritage streetscapes, treed boulevards and historic parks, Mount Clear is Estia Health’s newest residential home.With spacious private rooms with ensuites and bay windows or suites for couples with interconnecting rooms, the choice is yours, so you will feel right at home.The home has a Memory Support Unit for residents who are living with dementiaand offers spacious single and adjoining rooms with ensuite bathrooms, manicured gardens and high-quality furnishings.
Charles Brownlow Village, located in Highton only 15 minutes from the heart of Geelong. Aged care is not an 'add on' at a Ryman village, it is built into the fabric of our villages from the very first design concepts. So, if your health needs change over time, we can continue looking after you.Since Ryman Healthcare began, 35 years ago, the standard has been: It’s got to be good enough for Mum and Dad.The village offers a full range of aged-care options including residential aged care (low care and high care) and specialist dementia care. Your care is customised according to your needs and preferences.
The aged-care centre in Charles Brownlow Retirement Village is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A clinical manager and unit coordinators oversee the trained carers and registered nurses in the delivery of residents daily care with our staff ratios being some of the highest in the aged-care sector.
All the rooms are private and are spacious and air-conditioned, with monitored call bells in the room and ensuite. Residents and families can choose from a selection of room layouts, all with an ensuite bathroom. The rooms are their own personal space, and they can furnish it to be comfortable and homely.
At Ryman, our care plans come to life through our own electronic care app, myRyman. This award-winning app engages residents and their families in the care plan. Located in every care room, a device enables nurses and carers to view the care plan, and record daily care tasks for each resident.
It all combines to create a haven for residents to relax in, with many rooms overlooking beautifully landscaped gardens or courtyards. There is plenty of space to welcome visitors and all rooms have a television.
Food is really important, and our residents love the food in our seasonal Delicious menu, which is prepared fresh, daily on-site by village chefs.Our staff work tirelessly to ensure the comfort and happiness of the residents and, if their needs change, they have priority access to other levels of care - right there in the village.