aged care

Suellen is a Pastoral Care Volunteer at Chamberlain Gardens Aged Care in Wyoming.

This retired nurse can’t stop enriching lives

After Suellen retired from nursing after 45 years she continued to enrich the lives of the elderly through pastoral care. The Pastoral Care Volunteer at Chamberlain Gardens is passionate about well-being and emotional care, and feels there is a need…

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Mark Vickers is the Volunteer and Pastoral Care Coordinator at Chamberlain Gardens Aged Care.

Caring for the mind and the body

At the core of Christadelphian Aged Care is an understanding that caring goes beyond catering for physical needs, and includes the emotional and spiritual well-being of all our residents. That is why each of our Homes have dedicated Pastoral Carers…

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Judy Muir volunteers to run an art therapy class at Southhaven Aged Care.

Art therapy and dementia

A volunteer art therapy program is focusing on the area of the brain that is often the last to be lost to dementia. For art teacher Judy Muir the end product is never the point of her classes. She volunteers…

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Art therapy at Ashburn House in Gladesville

Art therapy class creates Gratitude Tree

On your next visit to Ashburn House in Gladesville, make sure you stop in the waiting room across from reception to see the Gratitude Tree.  All the ornaments on this tree were hand-made by residents during the Creative Art &…

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Rock n Rolling with Bobby Kerr at Ridgeview

Rock and roll comes to Ridgeview

Ridgeview is very blessed to have new Volunteer (Bobby Kerr) coming in on a Saturday morning twice a month. A bit about Bobby … “I was born in 1944 in Whitletts, Ayrshire, Scotland.  My grandfather, Robert Kerr, sang on the…

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