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The Group Homes Australia model is firmly built on the belief that people should thrive in a home environment. Traditional and beautiful homes, on ordinary suburban streets around Australia, where 6 to 10 residents live together. Residents have 24-hour support including dementia care, palliative and respite care, which is provided by a team of staff that we call Homemakers.
"This is one of the best models of dementia care in an assisted environment that I've seen." - Ita Buttrose
Group Homes Australia is an innovative and world-leading model offering dementia care, high care, respite and palliative care in a welcoming environment that values independence and resident involvement in the daily activities of the home. Our residents live with dignity and sense of purpose in a small scale environment.
The Group Homes model is the first of its kind in Australia and focuses on creating a home, instead of an institution, that emphasises the resident’s abilities rather than their disabilities. Each home has trained staff on site 24/7, called homemakers, a high ratio of staff to residents – and is the very opposite of the institutionalised care model.
The care team are dementia and aged care trained and they are referred to as Homemakers. Registered Nurses are also available around the clock as well as a full allied health team, and social workers, who visit each home as required.
Homemakers support and assist residents with their daily needs and activities; they encourage residents to be engaged in shopping, cooking, baking, gardening – the full range of tasks that bring a sense of purpose in a normal home. There are no call bells or nursing trolleys, no rigid routines around waking up, or meal times. The Group Homes Australia model celebrates life, and allows the residents to live with purpose and flourish.
Group Homes Australia has homes in Sydney’s Hills District, North Shore (St Ives & Turramurra), Northern Beaches (Warriewood) and Eastern Suburbs (Vaucluse, Rose Bay and Queens Park) & Inner West (Hunters Hill) & Sutherland Shire (Caringbah).
Group Homes Australia, leading dementia care provider, has launched its first Rementia Together Retreat (21st to 25th of August); making Group Homes Australia the first provider to deliver a Government-funded program in a retreat format out of the 10 Australian care providers awarded the Department of Health and Aged Care’s Grant in June 2023.
This year, the first public Australian performances of To Whom I May Concern® are set to hit Sydney. The show brings to the stage compelling personal narratives intertwined with live music, sharing a powerful and heartbreaking story of diagnosis for people living with dementia, and what life looks like beyond the diagnosis.
Dementia is a growing challenge. We are living longer and diagnosing it better. This creates a critical need for appropriate care models for this ballooning cohort of Australians.
The Group Homes Australia (GHA) model is firmly built on the belief that people living with dementia thrive in a home environment. GHA homes are ordinary homes, on ordinary suburban streets, where 6 to 10 residents live together. Residents have 24-hour care, provided by a team of staff called ‘Homemakers’.
There are two things that we know to be true about dementia: it involves parts of the brain dying, and the deterioration is progressive – which means things get worse over time. What does this mean from month to month, and year to year, for the person living with dementia, and their families too? How can families know what to expect? This interview on a care partner’s mindset from Founder and Co-CEO of Group Homes Australia, Tamar Krebs, explains.
Founder and Co-CEO of Group Homes Australia, Tamar Krebs, shares her thoughts on understanding the right time to move into care, and some tips to plan for an ageing journey with your loved one.
When it comes to dementia, interacting can be challenging. Everyone wants to connect, and being able to stay engaged with people living with dementia is essential. To share this connection, someone needs to change how we have a conversation. And it’s easier for the person who’s not living with dementia to do that. Founder and Co-CEO of Group Homes Australia, Tamar Krebs, shares 5 tips for interacting with someone living with dementia.
Founder and co-CEO of Group Homes Australia, Tamar Krebs, takes a closer look at how COVID-19 has impacted those living with dementia and their loved ones.
Group Homes Australia’s (GHA’s) innovative model of dementia and aged care can now be enjoyed in the comfort of a person’s own home. The holistic model has now been expanded to incorporate GHA@Home, allowing even more Australians to experience their differentiated care.
Innovative Aged and Dementia care model, Group Homes Australia, continues to push through ‘old-school’ industry boundaries by announcing that Jonathan Gavshon will join Tamar Krebs as Co-CEO.
Barry Ellis, 86, and his wife, Mary, 89, have been married for 61 years. The couple have three sons and one daughter. The couple’s daughter, who works as a trainer in aged care, found out about Group Homes Australia and encouraged her parents to move into one of their group homes as it meant they could live together and receive the unique care that they both required.
It’s that time of year again…a time for giving, a time for eating, a time for drinking, and a time for celebrating with your family. The whole family gathers together, to give each other thoughtful and beautifully wrapped presents, eat Mum’s delicious home-cooked food, sample Dad’s latest home-brew, admire the beautifully decorated tree and watch a couple of blockbusters on the TV.
By Guest Author Tamar Krebs, CEO of Group Homes Australia
By Guest Author Tamar Krebs, CEO of Group Homes Australia
We all forget our keys in different places. We sometimes cannot find our phones and perhaps even forgot an old acquaintances name. We all have mood swings and lose interest in different things at various stages of our life.
However, when does the forgetfulness begin to be actual memory loss? When do the mood swings need to be investigated further? When should you begin to worry and go get checked out?
By Guest Author Tamar Krebs, CEO of Group Homes Australia
As a little girl, I was very close to my great- grandfather. When he passed away, he had our entire family at his bedside. In his final moments, as he looked around the room, his eyes fell upon me and he fondly spoke his final words to me, “I love you, Doll”.
Ageing may be inevitable, but that doesn’t seem to make it any the more palatable for the vast majority of Western civilisation.
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