Group Homes Australia North Shore

The North Shore of Sydney features some of Sydney’s most prestigious schools and intimate community villages. Bordered by three national parks, Garigal National Park, Lane Cove National Park and Kur-ring-gai Chase National Park. This cluster of neighbourhoods is a leafy home to many professionals, families and retirees who love being in easy reach of the business and shopping hubs and with close access to the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

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.

Group Homes Australia has 7 homes on Sydney’s North Shore:

• Benaroon Ave, St Ives
• Garrick Rd, St Ives
• Killeaton St, St Ives
• The Cloisters, St Ives
• Fairlawn Ave, Turramurra
• Clissold Rd, Wahroonga
• Kenthurst Rd, St Ives

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.

For more information on any of our homes on the North Shore, please enquire.