Our new aged care residence has been redesigned, re-imagined and rebuilt so our local community can continue to receive first-class care and support. Close to all the things you know and love, Walmsley Aged Care is here to help you thrive. With 24-hour care and services that are carefully tailored to your needs, we’ll give you the support you’re looking for.
What are the design features?
- Light-filled Café, with external landscaped terrace
- Views to the Dandenong Ranges
- Senior’s gym for rehabilitation, strengthening and maintenance programs
- Private dining facilities
- Large activities spaces, with audio visual equipment
- Multi faith room
- Allied health consulting room
- Hair and beauty salon
- Views to courtyards and landscaped native gardens
- Small house hold living arrangement with 16-19 residents
- Each household has its own private living, dining, kitchen & outdoor space
- Household living areas which are light and sunny and short distance from resident rooms
- Sleeping areas are private with only 4-12 residents
- Warm residential environment
- Intuitive wayfinding through permeable design
- Large covered entry drop off.
What’s included at Walmsley’s Residential Aged Care?
- 120 rooms with private ensuites: 84 standard rooms, 18 memory support rooms and 18 deluxe queen rooms
- Rooms are configured into seven households over two levels, with between 13 – 19 rooms per household
- Central to the households and available to all Walmsley Village residents, will be a gym, hairdresser, allied health consulting room, large multipurpose area and a café with external landscaped plaza.
- A total of 36 on grade car parking spaces
- Landscaped external spaces, designed to harmonise with the existing indigenous flora and fauna of the Yarra Ranges Shire.
A new household
Walmsley Memory Support Care is now opened. It has been designed to help those who have been diagnosed with dementia and to provide personalised service and support. The household’s architecture includes a north-facing sunroom, landscaped gardens with a continuous walking trail, and an internal pergola and outdoor terrace for residents and visitors to enjoy.
Memory support attributes including colour contrasting, clear wayfinding, short corridors with no dead ends, discreet main household entry door, safety features in the kitchen, and security are also key design elements of the household.
