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Children Bring Cheer to Banksia Lodge
The ABC premiered its new documentary series “Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds” last night, and the early reviews indicate that it’s shaping up to be unmissable TV. The series follow an inter-generational experiment among pre-school children and residents from a...
Banksia Lodge Meets All Expected Outcomes
Banksia Villages’ residential aged care facility, Banksia Lodge, has met all 44 expected outcomes, following a quality audit on 7 May 2019. The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (the Commission) undertook the quality audit after Banksia Lodge failed to meet a...
Cheers to our Volunteers
Volunteers Week is the annual celebration designed to acknowledge the bighearted contributions of our nation’s volunteers. It takes place across Australia from 20-26 May 2019. According to Volunteering Australia there are around 6 million volunteers in Australia -...
Honouring the women who helped shape our lives
It may be your birth mother, step-mother, grandmother, aunt, foster mother, adoptive mother, family friend or even your mother-in-law, but most have of us have a special female in our life who we wish to honour on Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is a way of saying thank...
Social Connection – The Benefits for Your Physical and Mental Health
Banksia Village Snooker Group meets every Wednesday As Neighbour Day (held on the last Sunday in March each year) approaches, it seems timely to consider the benefits of social connection to both physical health and mental health. Experts agree that social...
2018 Charity Golf Day
Friday 16th November Moruya Golf Club Our annual fundraising Charity Golf Day will again be held in association with Moruya Golf Club on Friday 16 November. As a charitable not for profit organisation, Banksia Villages relies heavily on the support of our local...
Flying high at 90 – a very different way to celebrate a special birthday
While there’s no question that jumping out of a plane at any age is an achievement, taking your first tandem dive at 90 is something pretty special. For Banksia Village resident Denis Belford, however, it seemed like a great way to celebrate becoming a...
Boosting brain health – simple ways to help reduce dementia risk
With the number of Australians living with dementia continuing to rise, keeping our brains healthy is an important priority. We take a look at some simple ways we can help boost our brain health. There’s plenty of evidence supporting the physical and mental...
A death defying encounter
Changing the light bulb doesn’t sound like a dangerous occupation. But for Banksia Village resident Gordon Wheatley this simple household task nearly cost him his life 37 years ago, thanks to a bite from a deadly funnel web spider. On 31 January 1981, at his...
Banksia Villages awards first scholarships to South Coast Students
Two Eurobodalla high school students have been awarded scholarships for undergraduate courses at the University of Canberra, as part of Banksia Village Ltd’s new tertiary scholarship program. Taylar Tisma from Batemans Bay High School and Kate Blackmore from...