Aged Care
Council receives feedback during aged care review
Colac Otway Shire Council has received a progress report on its aged and disability services review, which considers options to continue or stop providing services to the community.
Petition supports retaining services
More than 700 people have signed a petition calling on the Colac Otway Shire Council to maintain its current aged and disability services.
Work underway on new facility
Work at Camperdown’s new $39.6 million aged-care facility is underway, targeting a 2025 completion date.
Council service review to begin
A review has started into the future of Colac Otway Shire Council’s aged and disability services, with opportunities ahead for people to participate in the review.
Council pushes ahead with care review
Colac Otway Shire Council officers say they are not in a rush to offload the council’s community care services, despite the Federal Government giving local councils an extra year to introduce a new aged-care program.
Aged care review to continue despite 12-month reprieve
Local councils have received an extra year to implement the Federal Government’s new aged-care package which has forced a host of councils to pull out of aged care.
Aged-care centres meet new quotas
A new aged-care rule requiring at least one registered nurse to be on-site at residential facilities at all times will have no impact on Colac’s aged-care homes, which already have 24-seven registered nurse care.
Outbreak measures stood down
Authorities have contained a COVID-19 outbreak at Colac’s Corangamarah aged-care home, with no new cases in recent days. The Department of Health and Aged Care’s most recent snapshot for COVID in aged care listed 24 cases of COVID among Corangamarah residents and seven among staff on December 8. A statement from Colac Area Health confirmed […]