Tag: residential aged care

The Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Aged Care are very proud to announce the completion of their world-class seniors and elders community in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The Terraces at Paddington (named for its historic terraced gardens which have been conserved to pay homage to the site’s history) combines retirement living, home care, and a residential aged […]

Presbyterian Aged Care (PAC) can announce that our Newcastle -Stockton- residential aged care service will undergo a major upgrade commencing in the second half of 2019. Along with installation of new air conditioning, new phone systems, and new nurse call systems throughout the facility, the dementia care unit will be relocated to another area of […]

Presbyterian Aged Care has opened the first stage of its $180 million community for over 55’s at “The Terraces at Paddington” in Sydney. “The Terraces” features a 100-bed first-class residential aged care facility, a 23-bed dementia unit with private garden, and 70 retirement units across four buildings. The heritage-listed Scottish Hospital which was a functioning […]

  Stage 1 of a $25m aged care community undertaken by Presbyterian Aged Care (PAC) has been completed at Thornleigh in Sydney’s North Shore.   The project has been designed by Sue Kenny Architects, built by Tower Projects and is expected to be wrapped up by July 2019, increasing stock levels to help meet the […]

I am delighted to inform you all that Stage 1 of The Terraces at Paddington has been handed over to Presbyterian Aged Care (PAC) by the builder Multiplex. This project is the largest single building development ever undertaken by either PAC or the Presbyterian Church in NSW.  At a cost of around $150 million for […]

The following is a continuance of my previous blog: Quality in Aged Care Part 1: What do people actually want? Here we found with the assistance of research that people measure the quality of their care more by the relationships they experience with carers, rather than many peoples’ assumptions of clinical care being the most […]

There’s been much debate in recent times about quality, or at times the lack of it, in Australia’s aged care system. I want to state upfront that the egregious examples of elder abuse and neglect highlighted recently in the media are outrageous and indefensible.  I’ve spent much of my professional life working on the issue […]

Multiplex, a leading global contractor, has reached a major construction milestone “topping out” The Terraces at Paddington, the $180 million over 55s community being developed at the Scottish Hospital site in Sydney. The Terraces at Paddington is the largest project ever undertaken by Presbyterian Aged Care in NSW. “It is exciting to collaborate with Presbyterian […]