Making it home sweet home
When considering the designs of its aged care facilities, Australian Unity is targeting small-scale living and steering clear of clinical vibes.
Australian Unity's Walmsley Aged care celebrated its first anniversary with an outdoor party
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Giving you the whole aged care picture
Australian Unity adopts a singular philosophy to the design of its aged care facilities. “It has to be a home. It’s not a facility or a hospital or a clinical setting. It is always a home,” Brett Lafranchi – Australian Unity’s national general manager residential aged care – tells Australian Ageing Agenda.
The aged care and retirement living provider’s old Walmsley site in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Kilsyth was anything but homely. It was, explains Lafranchi, more of a hospital than a home. “Rooms wer...
