Tag: Boandik Lodge

Lions provide sleep support

Alocal service club has donated some family sleep support to a local aged care provider as part of its grants program. Lions Club of Mount...

Musical memories

The Rotary Club of Mount Gambier West has recently supplied more than 40 headsets to Boandik for use for clients with dementia. The headsets are...

Sensory experiences help residents with dementia

Dementia residents at Boandik have rekindled memories of the past through tactile objects during art therapy sessions. The sessions are part of the dementia care...

Volunteer aged care driver switches gears

Avolunteer who has spent nearly 20 years with Boandik will soon retire. The man at the wheel of the Boandik community bus, Lindsay Pexton has...

Never too old to play

Boandik’s dream has been made a reality with fundraisers paying for two wish-listed “Magic Table” projectors each worth $16,000. The Tovertafel (in Dutch, “Magic Table”)...

Fighting on the frontline

Boandik Lodge staff have been making enormous sacrifices working on the frontline during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Boandik St. Mary’s enrolled nurse Crystal Palmer is...

Aged care more than a job

Enrolled nurse Vicki Nichols has celebrated a quarter of a century of service at Mount Gambier’s Boandik Lodge aged care facility. Mrs Nichols started working...

Lodge leader to step down

After more than two decades at the helm of aged care provider Boandik Lodge, chief executive Gillian McGinty (pictured) will step aside. Ms McGinty will...

Community lottery to raise Boandik funds

Boandik Lodge is raising funds for its innovative dementia village project through a community lottery. The aged care provider will raise funds through the People’s...

Wellbeing centre impresses

Boandik Lodge’s groundbreaking Community Wellbeing Centre and hydrotherapy pool have received another tick of approval, this time from South Australian Governor Frances Adamson, AC. Ms...

Dementia village plans shelved

Boandik Lodge has just announced it has made the “difficult decision” to defer construction on its Ridland Villas Dementia Village. Chief executive officer Gillian McGinty...