The dementia specialist provider will build the four cottage-style homes with 78 beds at the 13.7-hectare site at Daw Park, 7km from the Adelaide CBD.
Designed to care for people with complex needs in a village-like environment, the development will be HammondCare’s first cottage-style home outside of NSW and Victoria with each cottage catering to 15 residents.
Two more cottages will also become SA’s first Specialist Dementia Care Units, each housing nine residents, as part of a network of 35 SDUs being funded nationally by the Federal Government to care for people experiencing very severe symptoms of dementia.
Clinical oversight for the homes will be the responsibility of HammondCare, while SA Health will provide specialist clinical support such as psycho-geriatricians or geriatricians.
As we covered here, the State Government has also committed $14.7 million for an 18-bed, Tier 7 specialised dementia care facility – in part to replace the infamous Oakden Older Persons Mental Health Facility after its 2017 shutdown – on which construction is expected to begin in January 2020.
