Recognising the vital role nurses play at our aged care homes.
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Age no barrier for pen pals
A 73 year age gap isn’t stopping new pen pals 84 year-old MercyCare resident Kevin and 11 year-old Aspiri Primary School student Jaxith from sharing life lessons and providing reassurance that ...
Community Heroes: Showing compassion and care at a time when it’s needed most
Our Disability Support Workers have continued to provide excellent care to their service participants in spite of the challenges affecting their role.
Commemorating ANZAC Day
With ANZAC Day services cancelled this year, two of our Mercy Village residents helped commemorate the special day by sharing their stories – both of which were received with heartfelt gratitude ...
Community Heroes: Supporting and caring for the next generation
Our Youth and Homelessness and Early Learning Services staff have continued to provide vital support to the local community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Extended Mother’s Day celebrations for MercyCare Aged Care homes
MercyCare is extending Mother’s Day from Friday May 8 to Monday May 11 at its Residential Aged Care homes to ensure all families get the opportunity to connect with their loved ones while ...
Diversity and Inclusion series: Ravikumar’s story
“While I was away from my home country I always felt homesick and loneliness. I would travel home to Sri Lanka with a thousand dreams and everything would shatter in a couple of days,” Ravikumar ...
A focus on wellbeing during uncertain times
While MercyCare staff continue about their work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, looking after the wellbeing of community members across Perth and the Kimberley region, it’s also important the ...
Community Heroes: BASSA and DASSA
The MercyCare team in the Kimberley region has continued to provide vital support to the local community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Diversity and Inclusion series: Sina’s story
Her own younger years torn apart by war, Shokofa Abbasi has envisaged a very different future for her son Sina in Australia.
Aged Care homes re-open with safeguards to keep residents safe
As COVID-19 infection rates remain low in Western Australia, MercyCare has started reopening its Aged Care homes this week to visitors with strict screening and infection control procedures in ...
Visitor flu vaccination another step to keep residents safe
From May 1 Federal Government legislation requires all visitors and staff entering Aged Care homes to have a current influenza vaccination.
