Photo gallery: The Australian way of eldercare
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View from the kitchen counter at a cottage in the Meadows. Residents watching TV in the lounge. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
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Dr Amy Khor chatting with Madam Lee Kit Ping, 82. ANHF CEO Ms Ada Cheng, in the brown suit, is standing behind her. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
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Dr Amy Khor with residents and staff of day care centre run by ANHF. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
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Mrs Heidi Pigott-Irwin, a volunteer who brings the Happy Cart around to palliative patients, like Mr Patrick Maher, at Greenwich Hospital. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
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A session of mahjong. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
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A Meadows cottage for dementia care. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
View from the kitchen counter at a cottage in the Meadows. Residents watching TV in the lounge. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
Dr Amy Khor chatting with Madam Lee Kit Ping, 82. ANHF CEO Ms Ada Cheng, in the brown suit, is standing behind her. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
Dr Amy Khor with residents and staff of day care centre run by ANHF. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
Mrs Heidi Pigott-Irwin, a volunteer who brings the Happy Cart around to palliative patients, like Mr Patrick Maher, at Greenwich Hospital. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
A session of mahjong. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
A Meadows cottage for dementia care. -- ST PHOTO: SALMA KHALIK
If residents in some eldercare facilities in Australia want to cook or take walks by themselves, they are allowed to do so.
Facilities Down Under also try to emulate the look of a person’s domestic home rather than sport an institutional ambience.
These ideas are among the takeaways Minister of State for Health Dr Amy Khor came away with when she visited a couple of eldercare facilities last month while in Sydney for a malaria conference.
