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Resthaven Paradise & Eastern Community Services, located in Paradise, offers a range of in-home support and respite, health and wellness activities and allied health services, supporting you to remain living independently at home.
The Resthaven Paradise & Eastern Community Services main office is located in Paradise, with a secondary office located in Sefton Park. Support is delivered in your home by trained home support workers, or at one of our offices.
Services are delivered in a way that supports and respects your choices, independence, and privacy, providing peace of mind. You may choose to receive support with household tasks, home maintenance, shopping, social activities, keeping healthy, personal care and nursing care.
On Friday, 28 February, Resthaven held its 2025 Excellence Awards. The event recognised and celebrated Resthaven’s staff and volunteers, and the valuable and important work they do to contribute to the outstanding care and support of older people and their carers.
Held at the Wolf Blass Centre, Morphettville, almost 300 people attended the event, including the 80 award finalists, people who had nominated them, and special guests. Nominations for the awards were received from Resthaven residents, clients and families, as well as colleagues – with more than 1,800 nominations received.
Formal recognition programs, flexible work arrangements, increased rates of pay and additional leave entitlements are just some of the transformations Resthaven’s Executive Manager People & Culture, Sylvia Powell, has championed since joining Resthaven in 2020.
Coming on board soon after the appointment of CEO Darren Birbeck, the pair have worked together with the executive management team to boost the culture and conditions at Resthaven. They each strongly believe in workforce development and in celebrating the success of others. This International Women’s Day they are doing just that, while continuing to take steps to question unconscious bias, challenge discrimination and bring awareness to the areas where women’s equality is still a work in progress.
Resthaven is proud to celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2025 with a series of events, activities and concerts to be held across all of Resthaven’s residential, community services and retirement lifestyle sites.
‘Ninety years ago, in the coastal southern suburb of Brighton, Resthaven opened its doors for the first time,’ Darren Birbeck, Resthaven CEO says. ‘Formed from the belief that older women with nowhere to live deserved charitable accommodation, members of the Methodist Church set about establishing this home.’
Sitting in his lounge room, in the home he helped to build with his own two hands, Resthaven Paradise and Eastern Community Services client Mr Daniel Justus has come a long way, both literally and figuratively, since his birth 100 years ago in the former Yugoslavia.
Resthaven Paradise and Eastern Community Services staff have rallied together this festive season, creating special care bags for women living in crisis this Christmas. Manager, Eli Ulbrich, says, "This initiative was brought to us by a staff member, who wanted to be involved in Share the Dignity’s 'It’s in the Bag' Christmas appeal."
Resthaven Paradise & Eastern Community Services Podiatrist, Chris Frangos, chose aged care 20 years ago, and he hasn’t looked back since. "I graduated with a Bachelor of Podiatry from the University of South Australia in 2002, and found employment at Port Pirie Hospital."
Due to popular demand, Resthaven Paradise & Eastern Community Services has held their first ‘Spinning Yarns’ social group session. Therapy Assistant and group facilitator, Nicola Grose, says "Our clients love their knitting, and our weekly ‘Clicking Needles’ group has progressively outgrown itself."
According to Resthaven Paradise & Eastern Community Services Occupational Therapist, Jeevan Bhela, the best thing about being an OT in the aged care sector is "putting a smile on clients’ faces, and knowing I have made a difference in their lives."
Resthaven has launched a new government-funded program which aims to support older South Australians living with dementia to stay at home for as long as possible. The ‘Staying at Home in Regional South Australia’ program forms part of the Government’s response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, and aims to provide vital education and support to carers whilst their loved one is cared for in the same location by experienced staff.
World Parkinson’s Day is on 11 April 2023, when we recognise the 14,000 Australians who are diagnosed with the disease each year. A disease categorised by both motor and non-motor deficiencies, it has no identifiable cause.
Flinders University graduate, Hillary Williams, is starting her career off strongly, as Resthaven’s first ever Exercise Physiologist, adding to Resthaven’s existing suite of allied health and wellness services for older people.
Nancy and Nadia have found a close friendship through social groups offered to them at Resthaven Paradise and Eastern Community Services. When visiting Nancy and Nadia at Resthaven’s newest respite house, Alexandra Cottage, it was clear that these two friends are joined at the hip.
Resthaven Paradise and Eastern Community Services client, Irene O’Shea, who celebrated her 105th birthday on 30 May, is not your average centenarian.
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61 Silkes Road
Paradise, South Australia
5075
