Hepburn Health Service has received a mammoth funding boost to upgrade one of its nursing homes and its equipment in order to address the needs of the region’s growing, and increasingly ageing, population.
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Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas announced the state government would fund the service with $770,000 to develop a specialised dementia unit in Creswick on Tuesday morning.
The unit will house an additional six beds, doubling the number of beds at the home.
This funding will be in addition to the $2.4 million the government has already committed to re-developing the Creswick Aged Care Facility to bring it into the modern age.
Ms Thomas said the re-development, funded through the state government’s Regional Health Infrastructure Fund would mean dementia patients and their families would receive the care they needed locally.
Hepburn Health Service Chief Executive Officer Maree Cuddihy said demand for aged services was “increasing all the time”.
“We know design really has a therapeutic effect for all people, but in particular people with dementia, and the design of these 12 beds will be in a circular manner,” she said.
“It means people will be able to wander around safely, and there’s also an internal garden with light coming in.”
Further, the health provider will also receive $80,500 to replace existing colonoscope and light source equipment at Daylesford Hospital.
With Ashleigh McMillan.
