Royal Freemasons sells Monash Gardens Village to Auscare Retirement
Royal Freemasons announced today that Auscare Retirement will acquire its Monash Gardens Village retirement living community in Mulgrave, Victoria. It is expected that the transfer of Monash Gardens Village to Auscare ownership and management will take place on Friday 19 July 2024. Auscare is a Queensland-based family operation and provider of high-quality retirement living options […]
Generations come together at Aquinas College’s Café N9ne
Residents from our Centennial Lodge aged care home in Wantirna South love being special guests at Aquinas College’s Café N9ne. Operating out of the college’s Wurundjeri Trade Training Centre, Café N9ne equips year nine students with practical experience in hospitality so they can take on their first paid job with confidence. The collaboration with Centennial […]
Thank you for the music, Laura
“Volunteering is a wonderful thing to do; you get a lot out of doing something good for someone else. I always walk out on a high,” says Laura, who has been faithfully volunteering at our Monash Gardens residential aged care home in Mulgrave for over ten years. She is one of our 46 volunteers, who […]
Not just a job but a calling — celebrating International Nurses Day
After working for more than 15 years in paediatrics, registered nurse Patricia made the move to aged care in 2004 and has never looked back. “Nursing in aged care is a vocation — a calling — not just a job,” says Patricia. “You are caring for people in the last years of their lives, so […]
Respect Group Limited acquires Royal Freemasons Ltd aged care communities in Moe and Sale
Royal Freemasons announced today that Respect Group Limited (Respect) will acquire its age care communities in Moe and Sale. It is expected that ownership of these two homes will be officially transferred to Respect in February 2024. In late 2022, Royal Freemasons undertook a strategic review of its organisation and made the decision to rescale […]
Royal Freemasons appoints Hugh Cattermole as new CEO
The Board and Trustees of Royal Freemasons are delighted to announce the appointment of Hugh Cattermole, who will take over from John Fogarty, as the organisation’s new Chief Executive Officer. Hugh is a highly experienced executive leader across a number of sectors and has a passion for making lives better through the delivery of great […]
Garden keeps Nancy busy
Nancy has been assisted to stay at home with the support of Royal Freemasons personal care attendant Joanne Letsas, who helps with cooking, ironing, cleaning, shopping and any odd jobs. Nancy said being able to remain in her house is very important to her. “It means everything to me. My husband and I built it and […]
Giving gifts of joy this Christmas to aged care residents in need
Royal Freemasons has launched a Christmas Gift Appeal this year for its aged care residents in need. It is estimated that a third of elderly people living in aged care are socially isolated[1] and many of them will spend Christmas Day without families and loved ones to give them a gift to unwrap. At Royal Freemasons, […]
A younger generation highlights the benefits of volunteering in aged care
Medical students, Mitwa, Avisha and Aryan, first met four years ago while studying at Monash University. Despite busy schedules of their final year in medicine and working full-time as student doctors in Melbourne hospitals, most Saturdays the three friends volunteer together at our Monash Gardens residential aged care home in Mulgrave. Mitwa, who spent his […]
Young and old come together
Royal Freemasons Springtime residential aged care home has joined forces with students from Catholic Regional College in Sydenham (CRC) for an intergenerational program. Year 11 and 12 CRC students recently visited the home to play board games with the residents, sing karaoke, and share gifts and stories with them. The initiative was spearheaded by CRC […]
