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Business View Australia - July 2015 105

Aged Care, an 80 bed community

owned organisation, have the benefit

of living in idyllic surroundings

where they are taken care of by

highly trained staff who show

genuine warmth and compassion

as they go about their duties.

The facilities are divided into high

care, low care and extra services and

each category provides older people

an unsurpassed level of support,

while maintaining the dignity of each

individual. Residents are treatedwith the

greatest degree of kindness and every

effort is made to meet their individual

physical, mental and spiritual needs.

Lynden Aged Care has the distinction

of having a very favourable staff to

resident ratio with one carer for every

ten residents in low care and one carer

for every five residents in high care.

Ann Turnbull, CEO of Lynden Aged

Care, describes the strengths of

the facility, “The facility here has all

single rooms which are much bigger

than in a lot of other places and we

also have a higher staff to resident

ratio than in other places. The staff

have time to spend with the residents

because a lot of people just want to

sit down and have a chat for a few

minutes. So we have more hours of

care, with the result that staff spend

more time with the residents. We

really do try and make it a home

away from home. You know, you bring

your furniture, you set it up as you

want to, come and go as you please.

Proximity counts, so visitors can

come and go whenever it suits them.”

The facility is located amidst beautiful

gardens and each of the rooms is

Care

HEALTHCARE