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
Community Partnerships through work placements
Our Care Communities in WA have had the wonderful opportunity to open their doors again to high school students for their work placements. Our lifestyle team at Murdoch Gardens Car…
3rd November 2020
Care Community stories
Resident-run supermarket transforms lives at Alfred Cove
A simple idea has transformed the daily lives of residents at our Alfred Cove Care Community, where a resident-run supermarket, known as the OGA, has become a thriving hub for shop…
20th October 2020
Care Community stories
Living a meaningful and active life with dementia
Dementia Action Week raises awareness to the fact that people living with dementia can continue to live active and rich lives many years after diagnosis and as a community we must …
7th October 2020
Videos
Journey to Client Services Officer
Moving into aged care can be overwhelming for many individuals. As our Client Services Officer, Pritpal helps our residents to transition from the hospital or home into aged care. …
28th September 2020
Care Community stories
Treeby Parklands Care Community team welcomes first residents
Today our team warmly welcomed our first residents to our brand new Treeby Parklands Care Community in Western Australia. Our beautiful new care community has been designed to c…
14th September 2020
Our Team
R U OK initiatives - Take care of yourself
Taking care of yourself is not selfish but rather puts you in a better place to take care of others – which is what we do at Opal. We need to be in the best possible position to de…
10th September 2020
Care Community stories
Respite services can dramatically improve mobility
Doreen moved to Quakers Hillside Care Community for respite services care nearly 14 months ago and the pain in Doreen’s knee was affecting her functional mobility and had been dras…
7th September 2020
Care Community stories
Happy Father's Day
Happy Father's Day to all the special dads out there. Our care communities have been very busy preparing for the big day! Click here to send a message to dad and we'll print it …
6th September 2020
News & Events
Construction begins on Applecross Shore Care Community
We are delighted to have celebrated a major milestone with our community partners in Perth, with the turning of the first sod marking the start of construction of our newest reside…
1st September 2020