Aged Care Brisbane

Residential care is a term used to describe the general care and support provided in an aged care home. You might also hear an aged care home referred to as a nursing home or an aged care facility. Essentially, aged care is help and care in a friendly environment.

There are a range of people helping to keep residents happy and healthy in aged care homes. You can learn more here.

Making the right choice for aged care can be one of the toughest decisions you can make. For a summary of how you can be best prepared, learn more here.

1. See where your parents are coming from with their concerns
2. Provide examples of how aged care can help
3. Tell them how you feel or what you've seen
4. Bring a friend to the conversation

Learn more about how to talk about aged care with your family.

The beginning of a move into aged care can seem scary. But if you're wanting more detail on what it's like to live in aged care, you can read our guide on what the first 30 days of aged care are actually like.

St Vincent's employs strict infection management protocols and procedures to limit outbreaks of any infectious diseases (including COVID-19)

View a full list of safety protocols and some of the steps St Vincent’s took in response to the pandemic.

Aged care costs are confusing. There are multiple acronyms and ways of paying for aged care that can make it feel extremely complicated.

View a quick summary of how aged care costs work, here.

The topic of staff qualifications and staff numbers comes up often in aged care,

Qualifications for staff in home care vary depending upon the role and services delivered. 

Staff will be qualified in everything from a Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing, Home and Community), which provides ground-level knowledge and practical experience you would need to work in aged care all the way through to a Bachelors in Nursing (or similar) to work as a Registered or Enrolled Nurse.

Learn more about staff and qualifications