News & Stories

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.

At Opal HealthCare we are always striving to improve the wellbeing of the wider community by being a sustainable organisation. In our Social Impact Report, we share some of the many things we do to realise a more prosperous future for our people, places and planet.

Click here to view our annual Social Impact Report. 
Joan Sale Garden

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…

4th May 2020

Gardening

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…

27th April 2020

Easter bunny visits Opal Kawana Waters

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…

20th April 2020

Residents with coloured hair

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…

17th April 2020

Max the elephant image

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…

10th April 2020

Connecting through the window of love

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…

8th April 2020

Savi from Netherby

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…

3rd April 2020

Resident gardning at Opal Raynbird

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…

27th March 2020

Alberto registered nurse

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…

20th March 2020

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