Call goes out for more Blue Haven Care volunteers
After spending a short time chatting with just three of Blue Haven Care’s 115 volunteers, The Bugle is left with no doubt they feel their role is valued, needed and […]
Category Archives: Aged care
Residents move into new Mayflower facility
An open day has been held ahead of the transfer of 100 residents of Mayflower’s John & Helen Robinson Nursing Home and Pioneer Lodge to the new Uniting Gerringong Care […]
Aged care in the spotlight
With the investigations into aged care by Four Corners sparking a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the country’s attention has been focused on the level of care […]
The Governor-General comes to town
On his first official visit to Kiama, Australia’s Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove, and his wife Lady Lynne Cosgrove, focused their attention on youth, the success of Dementia Friendly Kiama and […]
Croft St safety fears
Local residents surrounding Gerringong Public School and Preschool are coming together to make a joint submission to Kiama Council objecting to aspects of the proposed demolition and reconstruction of Uniting […]
Millennials to the rescue
As the saying goes, if you want to find out how to use technology, ask a young person. Kiama Library has formalised a way for this to happen if you […]
Blue Haven Bonaira: the vision emerges
The groundwork at the old hospital site, necessary to convert it into Blue Haven Bonaira, is virtually at an end and the new structures are rising quickly. Kiama Council is […]
Time to shuffle on your ipods
It’s sad but true that many of us have a drawer full of technology we no longer use, but is ‘too good to throw away’. If you’ve got an ipod […]
Construction begins on old Hospital site
Construction has started on the $103 million Blue Haven Bonaira aged care centre (formerly known as the Kiama Aged Care Centre of Excellence) at the site of the old Kiama […]
Dementia Friendly Kiama celebrated
Kiama is leading the world in putting people with dementia front and centre in its quest to become dementia-friendly. This was the message celebrated at a gathering to mark this […]
