Aged Care

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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 […]

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  • Aged-care centre approved

    Corangamite Shire Council has approved plans for a new $40-million residential aged care facility at Camperdown. 

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  • Mercy Place residents proudly show their true colours

    Mercy Place Colac resident Joan Johnson has been crowned the “Mercy-low” winner of this year’s footy tipping competition.

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  • New mates bond over garden

    Friendship has bloomed between two residents at Mercy Place Colac over a shared passion for gardening.

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  • Tennis treat is a grand slam

    Mercy Place Colac resident Norena Larson is living the dream with a big screen.

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