Design & Equipment

Horticulturist and landscape designer Jamie Durie OAM believes aged care still has a world of potential to unlock with its gardens so that aged care residents can truly experience nature’s benefits.  

The Aged Care Maintenance Management specialists at MDFM shed some light on which metrics they have seen as key to their client’s continual growth and improvement.

The City of Sydney is seeking aged care provider applications for a proposed aged care facility in the suburb of Redfern so it can establish affordable culturally appropriate residential aged care in the area.

In an industry first for aged care, Australian Unity’s $3.6 billion Healthcare Property business has rated its portfolio of 26 aged care properties under the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS).

At the heart of aged care’s evolution is the environment where people live, with the small household model a beacon of change. So is this truly the future of aged care, or is it just one element?

Queensland aged care provider Odyssey Lifestyle Care Communities is on the way up – literally – with its latest development, an eight-story building in the Gold Coast suburb of Robina.

South Australian retirement and aged care service provider Barossa Village has officially submitted its Heritage Park Precinct Project into the Australian Government’s Regional Precincts and Partnerships Program (rPPP) – Stream One funding application. 

Aged care asset management and maintenance provider MFDM has devised a simple and effective app, Log-It, to streamline hazard reporting and maintenance requests in retirement villages.

In 2023 Opal HealthCare set a goal, as part of its Social Impact program, to have productive, sustainable kitchen gardens in every Care Community.

“The right kind of artwork, that people with dementia can perceive and use as landmarks, that they can reminisce with, and have conversations about – that creates dopamine, it raises wellbeing, it improves health.”