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At an age when many of her friends are slowing down, 74-year-old Braidwood great-grandmother Leonora Brown is ramping up, completing two TAFE NSW qualifications and starting a new job – in aged care. Leonora Brown has had a rich and varied career, but a yearning to re-e...
As the daughter of a Scottish coal miner, Jessie wore bloomers made out of flour sacks, and life wasn’t always easy. As she turns 99, Jessie reflects on a life rich in love, but not without sacrifice. Jessie is a humble woman who says her two sons are her greatest achie...
It’s been five years in the making. Five long years of dreaming, project planning, trial and failure, and trial again, all leading towards the grand finale of (drum roll please) the rollout of the AlayaCare/Ortec software at the final three At Home sites on 1 July 2021!...
BaptistCare Watermark Village in Wagga Wagga was recently nominated as finalists for two awards in the Golden Crow Awards for 2021. The Golden Crow Awards are prestigious local awards that are in partnership with Wagga Wagga Business Chamber. Watermark Village was nomin...
BaptistCare NSW & ACT, alongside other aged care providers, is a partner in the following roundtable project.Announced on Wednesday 15 September by Minister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt MP, Macquarie University has been awarded $1.4 million in National Health...
Yasothiny (Yaso) Yogarajah, Care Team Manager at Shalom, has been named as the winner of the "Excellence Award for Palliative Care in an Aged care Setting - Individual" award in the 2021 National Palliative Care Awards for her outstanding work in Shalom’s Palliative car...
Now 18, Hannah Holford started working at BaptistCare Carey Gardens when she was 16 and in year 11, as a Care Services Employee as part of an apprenticeship earning her Certificate III in Individual Support through a partnership with Australian Training Company, her hig...
Sixty-eight years after the completion of its very first home for elderly women, leading not for profit organisation, BaptistCare, witnessed a second “turning of the first sod” today at the organisation’s Carlingford birthplace. Construction will shortly commence on the...
It was the passing of *Bianca’s mother that left her and her son homeless for a fortnight just over two years ago. “I went to different organisations, but because I was still working, they put me in a hotel in Ballina, and I had to pay for that. After not long, I had to...
BaptistCare at home is launching their largest ever Home Care recruitment campaign and is looking for caring people to care for older people in our local communities and help people live their best lives at home. BaptistCare at home is proud to support over 8,000 client...
Alf celebrated his birthday with a morning tea surrounded by staff and residents and an afternoon tea with a special visit from his family this week. Alf has lived through some of history’s most significant moments. These include World War II, the building of the Harbou...
The 39-year-old mum-of-two from Wollongong is a client support worker with BaptistCare HopeStreet, a job she secured after undertaking work placement for her Certificate III in Community Services course in 2019. Nicole was nervous about studying with TAFE NSW but excell...
Accepting the challenge to walk as many steps as they could, 207 care service employees, facilitators and managers walked 39,568 kilometres – more than the perimeter of Australia’s coastline – clocking up 55,728,961 steps. “We saw a huge number of staff come on board wi...
Dorothy Henderson Lodge resident, local legend and centenarian Alf Bourne has been part of the BaptistCare family since 2002, first living at Willandra Village and then at Dorothy Henderson Lodge.Sadly, on Friday 19 November, Alf passed away in his sleep at the age of 1...
The construction milestone was marked with 86-year old Caloola resident, Louis de Kort, turning the first sod alongside Wagga Wagga City Council Mayor, Councillor Greg Conkey, and the teams from BaptistCare and Lipman. Designed to provide the best residential care now a...
Dear Prime Minister, Change is needed: A warning from COVID’s ground zero in aged care I write to you because we are fast approaching the two-year anniversary since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in the aged care sector and, heartbreakingly, it feels as if we a...
Having purchased a final stage apartment at The Gracewood off-the-plan in 2019, Robin and Gai Mitchell sold their North Rocks home so quickly that they had to move in with one of their sons for many months while waiting for construction to be completed. But on 1 July la...
When Jack Weller is not travelling around the countryside, he is out walking in the bush with the twittering birds keeping him company. He’s a very proactive 98-year-old who has called BaptistCare Aminya Retirement Village home for 23 years and is an absolute pleasure t...
Merilyn Philip discovered BaptistCare Aminya offered the perfect jumping-off point for years of adventure exploring her own backyard when she moved here with her husband, Ray, in 2013. And what better way to explore it than with the added company of her fellow residents...
When Warwick and Sandra Trimble were ready to downsize, health was at the forefront of their minds. Having both gone through cancer, moving to a village where they could spend less time maintaining their large five-bedroom house and more time maintaining their wellbeing...
