News & Stories
Aged Care News and Stories
We publish regular stories of joy from across our Care Communities and invite you to share in these stories, videos, insights, news and events. To us, quality aged care means supporting peoples’ physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellbeing and we share those stories here.
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Care Community stories
Person centred care ensures genuine human connection
Human connection is vital now as much as ever. Our person-centred care fundamentally means deeply knowing our residents and acknowledging each person as an individual whose backgro…
4th May 2020
Care Community stories
The healing power of gardening
Research has shown that gardening is an activity that promotes overall health and quality of life, physical strength, fitness and flexibility, cognitive ability and socialisation. …
27th April 2020
News & Events
Easter bunny visits Kawana Waters
The Easter Bunny really knows how to make an entrance with impact on the Sunshine Coast. Kawana Waters care community received an unexpected visit that really caused a stir when An…
20th April 2020
Care Community stories
Having a really good hair day!
Maintaining a positive and joyful atmosphere for our residents is at the heart of what we do at Opal. We strive to deeply get to know our residents and their likes and dislikes, so…
17th April 2020
Care Community stories
Max stays connected
Meet Max. He represents so many of our residents in his need to stay connected with his family and friends. Watch Max come to life in the adorable animation below. Teams acro…
10th April 2020
Care Community stories
Window of Love
Social distancing has posed challenges for many of us wanting to spend time ‘in real life’ with family and friends. Our teams at our Geraldton and Kawana Waters homes have created …
8th April 2020
Care Community stories
Meaningful relationships through virtual connections
Life as we know it has changed significantly for everyone in 2020 but particularly for our elderly population living in residential care, whose connection to the community has unti…
3rd April 2020
News & Events
Restricted Access update: Friday 27 March 2020
Given the rapidly rising rate of COVID-19 in Australia, we must all act for the greater good of everyone. That means doing all we can to protect our residents, team, families and a…
27th March 2020
Videos
Nursing within residential aged care
Nurses are an essential part of our care home teams. We chatted with Alberto who has been at Opal for almost five years now and loves his job. He started as an Assistant in Nursing…
20th March 2020