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Carinity is a leading not-for-profit, Christian based care organisation that has been changing lives of people in need – helping individuals and families reach their full potential to live enriched lives.
Since 1949 Carinity, formerly Queensland Baptist Care, has been making a real difference to people through comprehensive and integrated community services.
Residential Aged Care
Our friendly residential aged care centres are a home away from home for older people who are not able to live independently. We operate 11 communities throughout Queensland, catering for varying levels of care including permanent residential aged care, dementia specific and respite. Residents benefit from 24-hour staff support (including Registered Nurses), regular social events, activities and outings, as well as easy access to allied health professionals.
Home Care Services
With Carinity Home Care we support you to live an active and fulfilling life within the comfort of your own home and community. We provide so much more than just care and help around the home.
Whatever you want to get out of life, we’ll work with you to make it happen. We offer a full range of services from basic support and care to keeping you healthy and safe at home, assisting with personal care and nursing care, and getting you out and about with family and friends to do the things you love.
Retirement Living
With Carinity retirement villages throughout Queensland, community spirit is alive and well for retirement residents. Each retirement village has been designed with the resident in mind to support a social and connected lifestyle. Care has been taken to create a place where people are safe in their homes with functional and secure design features like 24-hour security and emergency call systems, a place where people can enjoy comfortable homes to live in and entertain family and friends and an environment that is calming with beautifully maintained gardens.
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Nobody has met and cared for more residents of the Carinity Colthup Manor aged care community than Esther Arulogun. She has served as a nurse for more than 50 years, with the last four decades supporting Ipswich seniors.
When it comes to winning awards, once is good, but winning a second time is twice as nice. Carinity has been recognised as the winner of ProductReview.com.au’s annual awards in the Health Services category for 2025. It’s the second year in a row Carinity has taken out the award.
Nancy Fermoyle has lived in Hervey Bay for nearly 85 years. The changes she has witnessed in her hometown during this time never cease to amaze her. “The Bay has changed so much from the small coastal town it was. I grew up on a cane and dairy farm in the outer suburbs. “The town is now encroaching on our farm with houses built right out to us,” Nancy said.
Having previously volunteered to help seniors in aged care in Gympie, Dawn Unwin wanted to assist seniors in her new neighbourhood when she moved to Bundaberg. She enlisted to lend a hand to Carinity Kepnock Grove staff who support residents of the aged care community.
A multilingual centenarian is one of the newest residents of Carinity Hilltop aged care in Brisbane. Helen Orosz is continuing the recent trend of seniors moving into Carinity aged care communities after they turn 100.
Catherine Lee used to be a pre-school teacher. Now she supports people at the other end of the age spectrum – and she loves her work. An enrolled nurse who has supported Bundaberg seniors for seven years, Catherine made the transition from child educator to Carinity Home Care nurse when “midlife hit."
ANZAC Day is a special time of reflection for Ipswich man and Carinity resident, Doug Young; a chance to honour defence service veterans including his brother. Doug and his identical twin brother, Allan, enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1953, when they were teenagers.
From troops on the frontline and civilians confined in labour camps, to prisoners of war and those who served at home, conflicts around the world have impacted many who have lived in Carinity seniors’ communities.
Not many seniors move into aged care after they turn 100, but Theresa Harvey has bucked that trend.
The average age of women moving into care is 85 years, but Theresa was 102 when she recently made the move to Carinity Shalom in Rockhampton.
She was born in Rockhampton in 1922, one of nine children for her parents James and Eleanor Hopkins (nee Nelson).
Brisbane man Allan Ashton has fit a lot into his 99 years – both on the ground and in the air! The Carinity Home Care client, who celebrated his 99th birthday last week, was born in Newcastle in New South Wales in 1926. Allan went on to work as an electrical fitter for BHP in his hometown.
The occupation would later see Allan and his wife Marion – who he married in 1957 – relocate to Ontario in Canada where Allan oversaw a large manufacturing company.
For Jeannie Healy, International Women’s Day on March 8 is a “time of reflection” and a “time to take stock of all that has been achieved” by women. “I reflect on the women in my life now and in the past: the hardships overcome; inspirational stories that have shaped my life; the men that supported these women to feel value, equality, respect, dignity, safety, and security in all aspects of life,” Jeannie said.
“To me, International Women’s Day means having the opportunity to celebrate women of all ages, nationalities, cultures, or ethnicities – whether they be past, present or future.” Empowering older women in her community is what Amy McLean strives to do every day in her role as Assistant Lifestyle Coordinator for Carinity Home Care Hervey Bay.
For the second year in a row, the testimonials of existing clients have seen not-for-profit aged care provider Carinity top the Health Services category in the ProductReview.com.au annual awards.
The selection criteria for the awards are based on the quality and volume of online reviews companies receive over the previous twelve-month period. Satisfied users of Carinity’s residential aged care and home care services delivered the organisation an average rating of 4.8 stars out of five.
Volunteering is a meaningful way to support people in local communities and make a real difference to the lives of others. Carinity’s volunteers have a positive impact on the lives of people in residential aged care, schools, community and disability services, and through our chaplaincy.
Queensland aged care provider Carinity is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
The genesis of Carinity was a meeting at City Tabernacle Baptist Church in Brisbane City in 1947, attended by people interested in establishing a Christian home for the aged.
A petition signed by 30 signatories was presented to the Baptist Union of Queensland. An accompanying letter outlined the plight of older Baptists living in Brisbane care homes for the elderly which were “filled to overflowing, and had long waiting lists.”
One of Australia’s oldest living World War II veterans has moved into aged care – at 104 years. Joffre Bell recently joined the Carinity Brownesholme community in Highfields.
A local family so impressed by the care their mother receives in a Highfields aged care community has gifted it a unique original artwork. A sculpture called 'The Family Tree' has been donated to Carinity Brownesholme by the family of Margot Cox OAM.
Almost 400,000 aged care staff nationwide work tirelessly to make the lives of older Australians better. On Aged Care Employee Day on 7 August, Carinity celebrates the contribution of more than 1,300 dedicated aged care and home care workers who care for Queensland seniors.
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Aged care chaplains provide compassionate spiritual care, support, encouragement and a listening ear to seniors.
As chaplains, Cath Millar and Tara MacDonald support seniors living at the Carinity Fairfield Grange aged care community in Townsville. They also extend their pastoral care assistance to families, carers, and staff.
“When you get older you feel like everything is going downhill, but with the right support and care, suddenly you’re back on the uphill.” For years Linda has managed ongoing mobility challenges, and the uncertainty of debilitating flare ups, caused by her rheumatoid arthritis.
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