A magical Christmas Party at Haddington Nursing Home today. We had some special visitors - Santa and his elf, who brought plenty of festive joy.

Today, Millrace Hostel was transformed into a Christmas wonderland! What an amazing Residents Christmas Party we had. 🎄 🎅 #ChristmasAtMillrace

The team here at TCC is so excited to fill you in on the amazing events planned for our beautiful residents for the upcoming weeks, all geared towards gearing up for the festive season! 🎄⛄

At a special general meeting on Monday 13 November, members of Tenterfield Care Centre Ltd (TCC) voted 87 per cent in favour of joining specialist regional aged care provider Apollo Care. TCC is a community-managed not-for-profit providing 82 beds across the Haddington and Millrace nursing homes in the New England town of Tenterfield. However, like many regional aged care providers, TCC experienced significant financial and operational pressures and could no longer remain a standalone aged care provider.

The countdown has been real! Anticipation and excitement bubbled up at both the Millrace Aged Care Hostel and the Haddington Nursing Home as they prepared to revel in the iconic event that grips the nation – The Melbourne Cup. Year after year, our senior residents never fail to mirror the enthusiasm the entire country feels during the 'race that stops a nation'.

Tenterfield Care Centre (TCC Ltd) – which operates the Haddington and Millrace nursing homes in Tenterfield – is proposing to partner with national provider Apollo Care to secure the future of its aged care services and meet current and future demand for aged care in the community

My Aged Care is one of the first places you need to visit if you want to access government funded aged care services in Australia. The website is designed to help you find all the information you need about subsidised aged care options, whether that be residential aged care or home care services.

You have a right to be treated with dignity and respect. The introduction of the Conduct for Aged Care (the Code) reinforces your rights to make decisions about your care, to have your wishes respected and to live a life free of harm, with dignity and autonomy.

Aged Care Workers provide support to elderly people by assisting with daily activities and personal tasks. This often includes providing support with eating, showering, dressing, tidying and cleaning. Aged Care Workers can work from their client’s home or residential care facility.

As the Aged care workforce continues to experience high pressure to meet the demands of clinical and high care tasks, your role will be to provide non-clinical social and emotional support to older people residing in aged care facilities.

We're celebrating our Leisure and Lifestyle Team this Diversional and Recreational Therapy Week.

Read more about Diversional Therapy and why engagement and purposeful living is so important for residents

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from their perspective – essentially the ability to relate to what another person feels. And going from understanding how they feel to acting up on it.

Due to the current COVID-19 situation in NSW, the guidelines for visiting may change quickly and often. We will send updates as they are available, however, please refer to the Department of Health website for current information. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/racf-latest-advice.aspx

Has it become apparent to you that your older loved ones need your support to manage many of their daily tasks?

NSW Health have both eased visiting restrictions for residential aged care services. From Monday 11 October in NSW, residents will be able to host up to 2 fully vaccinated visitors per day.