Permanent residential
All our homes offer permanent residential care. This can range from assistance with personal care or day to day tasks to requiring 24-hour nursing care.
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Wellness Centres
As people age, they often experience physical and emotional effects resulting from illness, injury or loss of ability. In our Opal Wellness Centres, we promote reablement and rehab (rehabilitation) through improving mobility. Our goal is to improve quality of life, emotional and physical wellbeing, and promote independence.
Our Wellness Centres focus on the long-term health and happiness of our elders. We partner with experienced physiotherapists who provide personalised programs that deliver real results, improving the quality of life of people with complex neurological, cardiac, metabolic and orthopedic conditions.
Our personalised approach takes into account each person’s individual goals, preferences, and choices.
A Wellness Centre program begins with a comprehensive consultation to assess individual health issues and concerns. Based on this, an individual treatment plan is developed including exercise classes and rehabilitation sessions.
Every month, a physiotherapist consultation reassesses progress and the treatment plan is amended as needed.
Each exercise program includes small group classes led by a physiotherapist in a fun, safe and relaxed environment. Access is available to a fully equipped gym, during supervised hours.
We partner with Concentric Rehabiliitation and Healthcare Australia. who both have expert teams that help residents acheive improved mobility, independance and overall wellbeing.
Wellness Centres for Reablement - scroll across to hear our stories
Respite
All careers need the opportunity for time off and a break from looking after loved ones. We offer short-term respite in many of our homes.
Longer-term respite can be a good way to manage the recovery from illness and gives residents the opportunity to access reablement services.
In many of our homes, we welcome day visitors for Respite Care to give you a chance to spend the day enjoying our care & services and to give home carers an opportunity for a break.
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Dementia care
This can range from assistance with personal care or day to day tasks to requiring 24-hour nursing care.
Read more about dementia care5 Steps into Residential Aged Care
Assess
Make sure the person requiring care has had an ACAT assessment.
Find
Search for a residential aged care home suitability located.
Costs
Understand the costs associated with aged care.
Apply
Ensure you have all the relevant paperwork.
Move
Check out our moving checklist to ensure the smoothest move possible.
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Commonly asked questions about Aged Care
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Once you have received your ACAT assessment, you can begin applying to as many care homes as you wish, but once you accept a place, it’s important that you let the other homes know that you no longer require their services.
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Visiting a range of homes is often one of the best ways to decide which home suits your needs. To help you assess the suitability of the homes you visit, we have attached a short checklist at the end of this section. This will help you assess each home and ask some important questions to the providers you meet with.
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The Department of Human Services (DHS) is the body that determines your financial situation. To do this, DHS conducts a Combined Income and Assets Assessment, which is a form that you need to complete and submit to the government.
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Respite care is short-term care, including day respite, to provide your caregivers a break from caring when they need it. It can be planned or on an emergency basis and can be used for up to 63 days in a financial year. Many care homes offer day respite, which offers caregivers some flexibility to attend to personal needs and obligations as they arise.
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The Combined Income and Assets Assessment form (SA457) is an extensive questionnaire with over 140 questions about what you and your partner/spouse own and earn. It’s important to understand that you are considered to own half your assets with your partner/spouse regardless of who holds the title to the assets. As part of your assessment, you will be asked to provide details of all assets owned by both of you.
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Accommodation Charge (the cost of your room) - These are set by individual homes and varies from home to home
- Basic Daily Care Fee (meals, laundry, cleaning and other day-to-day costs) – These are set by the Australian Government and is the same across every home in Australia.
- Means-Tested Care Fee (to supplement the cost of your overall care) - These are set by the Australian Government based on an assessment of your personal financial situation.
- Additional Services Fee or Extra Services Fee - (higher-end services and accommodation) These are set by individual homes and varies from home to home.In some homes, Additional Services or Extra Services are optional and in other homes, residents are required to purchase these services as a condition of entry
For further information download our 5 step guide.