Providing World-Class Dementia Mate Wareware care at Aspiring Care

For those living in the Hāwea secure dementia community at Aspiring Care, each morning starts the same as everywhere else: breakfast, chatting with friends, seeing visitors, and personal care routines. The Hāwea team are there to help every step of the way, allowing those that call Hāwea home, security, dignity and choice.

Creating an inviting and friendly home for our most vulnerable residents/kaumātua is an art, which Cathy and the team at Aspiring Care do amazingly well.

Aspiring Care’s Manager, Alexa Gutowska, says “We are very fortunate to have a dedicated nurse, Cathy Mahoney, who works Monday-Friday in our Hāwea unit, supported by a consistent healthcare team. This provides consistency for the staff, residents, and the families/whānau.

The staff working in the unit are passionate, committed and simply really enjoy what they do.”
Providing consistency in the context of a homely environment is key to the success of the Hāwea community. Recently our General Manager Enliven Services, Michelle van Kampen, spent several hours helping in the Hāwea community. “Not only is the unit designed in line with the best dementia principles, including walking loops and a purpose-built memory garden, the Hāwea community is just that – a community. It is the residents’ home and it is treated as such, with one of the residents being able to keep her beloved cat with her. Trusting and caring relationships are formed between residents and the team.”

Aspiring Care’s modern and light 20-bed secure memory unit is purposely designed in accordance with dementia principles, with a great indoor-outdoor flow. Our goal is to make Hāwea the best dementia community in the region, providing a high-end service with aroha making it a home.

For more information please contact Manager, Alexa Gutowska on 03 555 3010 or email aspiring@psotago.org.nz

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