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tive environment is the
ged Care Facilities.
coming from Serbia and Hungary.
The two facilities are both headquar-
tered in Adelaide, South Australia,
with Pennwood Aged Care village
located in the western suburb of Pen-
nington, and Pennwood Green in the
eastern suburb of Oakton. Pennwood
has just begun running consumer
directed care services to homes and
offers 35 different packages to Eu-
ropean people in western Adelaide.
Pennwood’s CEO Anne Brown says
over 100 staff members work across
both sites with 135 care recipients.
Pennwood also has plans to expand
in the near future.“We do intend to
expand and we have purchased land
at Pennington and are currently plan-
ning to purchase land at Oakden.
Currently the Village has 60 beds and
Oakden 40. We want to expand to 80
and 60 respectively. We need to apply
for Bed Licenses this year. We also
want to expand into home care ser-
vices and eventually we’d like to have
at least 60-80 home care packages.”
Pennwood is one of the first aged
care facilities to adopt a new life-
style model which encourages peo-
ple to keep active and moving. The
new Healthy Lifestyle Model adopt-
ed from the WHO encourages peo-
ple to “walk till they die”. This sits
alongside our Home Care Services
living longer, living better model of
care which has been promoted by
Pennwood. The Australian govern-
ment enables people to stay in their
own homes, moving away from the
old medical model where a nurse
governed ward rounds and tasks.
HEALTHCARE