Centre Residential Aged Care

Centre Residential Care is a warm and welcoming place where you can relax and be yourself. Our professional team is available to provide all the care and assistance you need to live a full and socially active life. We make sure that no week is ever the same by providing activities and events throughout the year, both within the home and among our community. friends and family are always welcome.
Centre Residential Care is a private single accommodation with shared bathrooms and kitchen. Your room also has a television and WYFI access so you will always be entertained of mobility assistance features, a 24-hour emergency call system and the reassurance of staff members being available 24/7 should you ever require assistance. extra charges may apply
Feel free to call us to arrange a visit

Recreation

  • Arts and craft room
  • Billiards/games room
  • Gym
  • Outdoor BBQ
  • Off-leash dog park
  • Over 30 social clubs
  • theatre/cinema
  • Barber shop
  • Hair and beauty salon
  • Library
  • Learning Hub
Centre Residential CareStaff
Centre Residential Care workers provide care, supervision and support for aged people in residential establishments, clinics, hospitals and private residence. They assist with the maintenance of personal care, domestic duties and management of illness.
Activities

  • Bingo
  • Bus Excursions
  • Card & Board Games
  • Concerts
  • Cultural Activities
  • Exercise Classes & Programs
  • Happy Hour
  • Indoor Bowling
  • Lifestyle & Activities Program
  • Men’s Group
  • Movie Days
  • Movie Library
  • Music Therapy
  • Organised Social Activities
  • Painting
  • Quiz & Trivia Nights
  • Religious Practitioner Home Visits
  • Religious Occasion Celebrations
  • Shopping Trips
  • Sing-Alongs
  • Spiritual Activities
  • Theme Days
  • Variety Entertainment
  • Walking Groups
  • Religious Services
Accommodation
The private single bedrooms are in a home setting are spacious and well-appointed and have been laid out to provide you with maximum comfort and privacy. bathrooms and kitchen are shared and enjoy relaxing balcony or patio views across our landscaped internal gardens or around our local community parks.
Your suite comes freshly decorated and fully furnished, including a bed and a nurse on call system our alert our team if you ever run into difficulty. All that’s required is for you to move in and give it a personal touch. We encourage you to decorate your suite with photos, mementoes, artwork, and even some of your own furniturewhatever you need to help make it home.
Paying for residential aged care, depending on your personal circumstances, you may decide to sell your family home to enter an aged care facility. If you move into a residential care facility without selling your home, it will be exempt from the Age Pension assets test for 2 years from the date you move intoCentre Residential Care.
Amenities

  • Activities/Games Room
  • Shared Dining Room
  • Mobility Friendly
  • Newspaper Delivery Available
  • Nurse On Call System
  • Security
  • Smoke Alarms
  • Fire Sprinklers
  • Electric Blanket
  • Heater
  • Nurse Call System
  • Shared Bathrooms
  • Shared Kitchen
  • Private Internet Option
  • Private Television & Radio Option
  • Private Pay Television Option
  • Private Telephone Option
  • Secure Storage
  • Smoke Alarm
  • Wardrobe
Care Options
Centre Residential Care offers a wide variety of services to assist you. so whether you want a little help with daily living, care services or medical services, our friendly care staff are here to help with the Tasks of Daily Living.
Centre Residential CareSocial Worker and Support Services
A social worker is a health professional who helps people in times of crisis. Their clients may include families, students, hospital patients or the elderly.
Social workers can provide their clients with practical support, counselling, information and emotional support. They can suggest different ways of looking at the problem and will be able to give their client the information they need in order to make a difference to their life.
Depending on the level of care we are able to have a social worker meet with you as scheduled by our friendly staff and upon request.
A more specialized service is readily available for your day to day needs.
Support Services

  • Cleaning
  • Dry Cleaning
  • Hairdressing & Beauty
  • Laundry
  • Repairs & Maintenance
Care Services

  • Audiology & Hearing Aids
  • Continence Management
  • Counselling
  • Lifting of Residents & Manual Handling
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Optometry
  • Pastoral & Spiritual Care
  • Physiotherapy
  • Podiatry
  • Speech Pathology
Medical Services

  • Care Staff Onsite On Call 24/7
  • Choice of Doctor
  • Clinical Staff Onsite On Call 24/7
  • Doctor Visits
  • Mental Health Advisor
  • Mobile X-Ray
  • Specialist Services
Neighbourhood Watch
Set within attractive grounds, Centre Residential Care is ideally situated just less than 2-3klm from shopping complex and train Station, you can stroll down to the cafe and shops. Altona Hospital is only a kilometre away and buses go all over the city from a bus stop just 100m away.
Nearest Shopping Centre
Shopping Centre Complex
Bus Service
100m
Train Service
2-3km
Nearest Altona
Shops
Call Tel: 1300 206 441
Residential Care – Commonly Asked Questions
It is important that the clothing a Care Recipient wears is both comfortable and easy to both put on and take off. Easy wear and easy-care fabrics are ideal for clothing to maintain a good look and yet at the same time the item of clothing is serviceable.
Some Care Recipient require clothing that opens down the back and fastens with Velcro or tapes for ease of changing clothes with a minimum of difficulty. The staff can help you choose appropriate clothing if required. Some companies specialise in ready-made clothing for this purpose. The Nurse, Facilitator or manager can provide relevant information if required.

As a guideline it is suggested that a Care Recipient has the following as a minimum:

  • 8 sets of day clothing suitable for varying temperatures
  • 8 sets of underclothing consisting of singlets/vests and knickers/underpants
  • 12 Handkerchiefs
  • 6 pair of socks/stocking
  • 4 cardigans or tops
  • Comfortable and supportive day shoes with a low heel
  • Slippers for sitting
  • A jacket if the resident goes on an outing
  • Hat for when sitting or walking outside if this is appropriate
  • 6 sets of night wear i.e. PJ’s or Nightdresses
  • Dressing gown
Laundry Service for Personal Clothing
Centre Residential Care Health Service provides a laundry service. However, facilities are not available for any woollens or heavy clothing.
To ensure that delicate fabrics are maintained in excellent order we suggest that woollen or delicate fabric garments are taken home for families to launder or they may be dry cleaned. The dry cleaning remains the Care Recipient’s or family’s responsibility.
Centre Residential Care Health Service provides for laundering of personal clothing. All personal items of laundry should be clearly marked with the owner’s name, preferably welded name tags or sewn on tags. The home cannot accept any responsibility for any lost or misplaced items.
Centre Residential Care Health Service can provide suitable labels for the Care Recipient. These labels can be welded onto all types of fabrics and are very suitable for the needs of clear identification of personal clothing.
Clothing Identification Labels
All clothing is to be labelled with the Care Recipient’s name. A marking pen is not suitable as this does fade in time and makes it difficult to identify and track clothing.
Centre Residential Care Health Service is able to provide a quality Name Label system using labels that are able to be welded onto all garments including nylon stockings and woollen socks. There is an initial cost of $50 which will be added to the residents monthly account, staff will be able to apply these labels. Our staff will be happy to discuss this with you.
You may wish to provide your own labels and sew them onto each garment.
Cleaning Services
All electrical equipment that is brought to the facility is to be safety tested by our Maintenance department to ensure its safety and compliance with standards.
Our Friendly staff are schedule for cleaning and monitoring safe house keeping on a regular basis.
Centre Residential Care Residence, we value our Care Recipients and look to achieving the best outcome for their level of care needs on a day to day bases and maintain occupational health and safety standards.
Personal Refrigerators and Externally Produced Food Items
All Care Recipients in consultation with relatives or significant others are welcome to have choice in deciding what they would like to bring into our Residential Care facility and what food they may choose to eat.
If Care Recipients or relatives choose to have a small refrigerator within a Care Recipient’s room, they must therefore assume responsibility for the contents and cleaning. Whilst we may endeavour to ensure food safety, Centre Residential Carecannot take responsibility for the monitoring or controlling of refrigerator temperature, contents from external sources or consumption thereof. Charges may apply
Television Sets/CD Players
You may wish to bring in your own. Our recommendation is a flat screen TV of a maximum 54cm size. This can be wall mounted to reduce OH&S risks to staff and family members.
In theCentre Residential Care – television sets and. DVD player is fitted in the main lounge room – just see the Facilitator or Manager.
It is suggested that you bring in a small CD player as we encourage Care Recipients to bring in favourite CD’s or tapes to play in their room for enjoyment.
Furniture
It may be possible for you to bring in some furniture following discussion with the Unit Manager to ensure that the furniture is appropriate for the Care Recipient’s needs and that there is adequate room for it. In a shared room this is sometimes more difficult due to space limitations. The safety of our Care Recipient and staff is always paramount.
Often a Care Recipient has a favourite chair at home and would like to bring it in to the home and placed in their room. Our Occupational Therapists are able to assess the Care Recipient and make a recommendation as to the suitability of the chair.
The Care Recipient’s room is their home and we encourage you to bring in pictures or photographs to personalise their room.
Bedding
We provide beds, mattresses, pillows, linen for the bed and any pressure relieving devices/mattresses as may be deemed appropriate for the Care Recipient following assessment of care needs and availabilities. We encourage the Care Recipient to bring in their own doona and cover or bedspread to add their own familiar personal touch. You may have a favourite pillow and you are welcome to bring this in for your comfort.
Buses and Outings
Centre Residential Care has its own bus. The bus is shared with other services within Centre Residential Care Scheduled Services and can be booked for use by the various Residential Care Services to take Recipients shopping or on short outings. Depending level Care service their maybe charge for the use of the bus. Formal outings are arranged through the activities program. Care Recipients may choose to go out with family or friends.
Medical Checks
Care Recipients have a choice of a local doctor who will visit regularly. An emergency service is provided by the local Medical Centres 24 hours a day. Staff will make the arrangements as necessary.
Library
It can be arranged for you to access the Visiting Library and the Talking Library Service through the Residential Care Facility Activities coordinators Tel: 0430 797 189

Visitors
Our homes encourage visitors to the Care Recipients however, we would appreciate visiting times within the following hours 8:00a.m to 8:00pm to ensure Care Recipient’s receive an adequate rest period.
Family and extremely close friends may visit any time over the 24 hours.

Pets
For many of us pets are like family. They can offer companionship and unconditional love. At Ark Of Truth Residence we are very aware how difficult it is for many people to transition to residential care and that this can be even more difficult if there are pets to consider. We are aware that leaving a pet behind may be very difficult. Unfortunately, it is not possible for us to allow pets, due to issues not limited to Occupational health & safety, allergies, environmental hazards etc.
Your pet may visit but this must be discussed with the Facilitator or Manager. Should you require assistance in finding a new home for your pet.
We may be reached on Tel: 0430 797189 or 0424 133 847

Volunteers
Our facilities encourage volunteers to become part of the care team. Assisting with the activity program’s which may include: one on one visiting, involvement in activities, gardening, reading, musical entertainment for example.
If any of the family and friends of a Care Recipient would like to become a volunteer please contact: The Volunteer coordinator on Tel: 0430 797189 or 0424 133 847 or email us: arkoftruthagedcare@gmail.com
We would like to make this process as easy and trouble free as possible for you. We understand that it is often a difficult time for the prospective Care Recipient and family and if we can help in any way please discuss your concerns with us.

Infection Control
Ark Of Truth Heath Services takes every precaution to prevent the spread of infections. Infections are most commonly spread via hands and all staff receives regular education in relation to when and how to clean their hands. Hand gel and hand wash products are placed throughout the facilities for the use of both visitors and staff. Visitors to the facilities are encouraged to clean their hands before entering a facility, before leaving and between coming into contact with more than one Care Recipient.
Care Recipients are more prone to contracting infections such as influenza and gastroenteritis therefore we would ask family members experiencing symptoms of either condition to refrain from visiting the facility for up to 48 hours after the symptoms have disappeared.
All Care Recipients are offered annual vaccination for influenza from March. You will be notified and offered a consent form when vaccines are available. All Care Recipients are strongly encouraged to receive this vaccination.