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The Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing, supported by Benetas, worked together with leaders at Belvedere Aged Care, an aged care provider in South-East Melbourne, to co-design multilingual communication cards with their residents from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Benetas is pleased to announce that Nikolaus Rittinghausen has been appointed as the new Manager, Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing (The Centre).

Our first residents have now moved into St John’s Rise retirement living located in Mooroolbark.

Campbell Richards has been appointed as Benetas’ CFO and Company Secretary.

Benetas is excited to announce that we will be delivering services to a new cohort of people living in the Latrobe, Baw Baw and Hepburn shires, who are eligible to be part of the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP).

Benetas is pleased to announce their new appointment by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, to provide Veteran Home Care Package Assessment services to 2,823 veterans across Queensland.

Some thoughtful and proactive nurses from Benetas’ In Home Nursing Service team have collected some much-needed medical supplies for Ukraine.

Leading aged care provider, Benetas has appointed John Staines to the newly created position of Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Benetas has announced the pending acquisition of Bridgewater Lake Retirement Estate in Roxburgh Park. Currently owned by family-run Parks Villages, the Estate will formally shift to Benetas ownership on 1 April 2022.

In November 2021, the “You Can Ask for What You Need from Aged Care Services” film was released by the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing in 16 different languages. The film aims to raise awareness for consumers from culturally diverse backgrounds about their right to give feedback to an aged care service.

Benetas St Paul’s Terrace residential aged care home in Frankston is fortunate to have a couple of kind hearted toy makers in the home. Resident Maria Hollway has a knack for knitting and a compassionate heart as she has spent the last few weeks knitting Trauma Teddy’s for the children in Frankston Hospital Emergency Department.

Benetas Pastoral Care practitioners have needed to pivot from their usual work in order to meet the increased demand for support.

The residents at Corowa Court aged care home on the Mornington Peninsula were delighted to receive a surprise delivery from the children at Devon Meadows Primary School recently, with bundles of hand crafted drawings and letters providing them with a sense of connection during lockdown.

Monica Fitzpatrick, known as Bonnie, celebrated the milestone of one hundred years young on 8 October. Bonnie marked the occasion at Benetas aged care home St Laurence Court Kangaroo Flat, surrounded by friends and then later with her family.

Leading aged care provider Benetas has appointed Sarah McInerney as the new General Manager of Quality, Outcomes and Research following the departure of Dr Catherine Joyce due to an interstate move.

Thanks to a grant from the Psyche Foundation awarded to leading aged care provider Benetas, research was conducted into how to improve the mental health of people moving into residential aged care and ease the transition for them and their loved ones. Benetas welcomes more than 300 new residents into their Residential Aged Care homes every year. The research, managed by Benetas Senior Researcher Dr Meg Polacsek, aimed to uncover the pain points to help support residents and families better when the time came to make the move.

Benetas is supportive of the mandated vaccine for residential aged care employees to ensure that those we care for who are most vulnerable to COVID-19 are protected.

Benetas is pleased to be a signatory to the Retirement Living Code of Conduct.

The Traralgon Pastoral Care team from Victorian aged care provider Benetas had to significantly adapt to tackle the challenges that COVID-19 brought in providing much-needed support to older Australians.

Benetas is re-purposing a number of independent living units in Bendigo to provide temporary accommodation for aged care employees struggling to pay local rent or having to commute from Melbourne to maintain their employment.