Meet the people living well with residential aged care

Baptcare Wyndham Lodge Italian Club

Everything is felice at Wyndham Lodge’s Italian Club. Every Tuesday morning for the past eight years two big-hearted Baptcare volunteers, Concetta Cini and Maria Lock, bring a touch of Italy to Wyndham Lodge Aged Care community.

• 05 Jun 2025

Baptcare Abbey Gardens community and youth theatre take centre stage

Mother’s Day might be over – but we can’t resist a special story about family bonds, especially when our Abbey Gardens Residential Aged Care community in Warragul is involved!

• 05 Jun 2025

Volunteer Spotlight: Jasmine and Jean

We always look forward to National Volunteer Week (held this year from 19 – 25 May) because it is an opportunity to celebrate our stellar volunteers. Jasmine Varghese is just one of our many dedicated ‘vollies’. She is a frequent visitor to our Brookview Aged Care community to meet up with resident Jean Black. We asked Jasmine and Jean to tell us about their connection.

• 20 May 2025

Elpis thriving with Living Well Together approach

Elpis Savidis is one of the most enthusiastic participants in Living Well Together, our Montessori-informed model of care at Baptcare Brookview Residential Aged Care community.

• 20 Mar 2024

Life is about making connections says Karana’s Jean Giese

Ask 96-year-old Jean Giese what matters in life, and she answers without hesitation. A fairly recent resident of Baptcare’s Karana residential aged care community, Jean has discovered that several staff members grew up in Nepal, so she talks with them about what she saw and learned while trekking in that country.

• 13 Feb 2024

Don McLennan stays healthy in mind, body and spirit at Amberlea

Acknowledging that ageing lifestyles are diverse and that agency and individualised experiences are important is the philosophy that underpins Baptcare’s Living Well Together model of care. It is also exemplified in Don McLennan’s individual and meaningful lifestyle at Amberlea.

• 01 Feb 2024

Meet Jack and Gloria

Jack and Gloria were students at the same school until about year eight when Jack left school to work at a grocery shop in Inverloch and Gloria moved to Yallourn North to work in a women's clothing store. Later on, Jack joined the Navy and lost contact with Gloria. It wasn't until years later when Jack moved to Morwell that he would see Gloria around town, but both had married by then and had their own families.

• 16 Nov 2023

A life in full bloom: gardening with Ailsa at Peninsula View

Ailsa Fraser has only been part of the Baptcare Peninsula View aged care community for eight months, but her impact is obvious. Despite the winter weather, Peninsula View’s beautiful central garden is flourishing, thanks to her hard work (and very green thumbs!)

• 01 Aug 2023

Meet Jean Wilson

I was born in Harrow in the UK. I married my late husband Granville in 1946 and moved to Australia in 1950. I have five children, eight grandchildren and six great- grandchildren.

• 17 Apr 2023