Aged Care
Caring for the aged and ageing is a major focus of the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA). There are 44 Lutheran aged-care services in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and New Zealand, which together care for approximately 4000 residents in either residential care or retirement villages. As the Australian and New Zealand populations age rapidly, our church's board for aged care is helping to prepare and equip the LCA so that it can meet the challenges of caring for the approaching population boom of elderly persons.
Board for Lutheran Aged Care Australia
Our aged care services include:
- Community care
- Veterans Home Care Program (VHC)
- Community Aged Care Packages (CACP)
- Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) - Independent living unit (or self-care units)
- Low care (or hostel care)
- High care (or nursing home care)
- Dementia care
- Respite care service.
Details of the services at each facility can be obtained by contacting them directly: Find an Aged Care Service
Undergirding our care for the elderly is our strong Lutheran understanding of God's loving action in the world, which has been articulated in the booklets:
- Theology of Ageing
- Pastoral Care of the Aged
- Ministry to Older Persons: A Lutheran Perspective.
More information: Board for Lutheran Aged Care Australia
Lutheran Community Care (SA/NT)
Community Visitors Scheme
Lutheran Community Care SA/NT’s Community Visitors Scheme links people living in an aged-care home with a regular visitor. This service is available to residents who are without family or friends to visit them, have limited contact with family and friends, are socially isolated in the facility, or are frail and not as mobile as they once were and confined to their bed.
Our trained volunteer visitor will call on their designated resident at least once a fortnight for up to an hour. Usually the time is spent chatting, discussing local news, reminiscing, reading or even working on a hobby or activity together. Residents using the program enjoy the regular visits and look forward to spending time with a person genuinely interested in them.
Lutheran Community Care is linked with the following facilities in the Adelaide Hills, the Barossa and parts of the metropolitan area:
North and Eastern metropolitan and city
- • ACH group Highercombe Hope Valley
- • Ananda Hope Valley Residential Care at Hope Valley
- • Aldersgate Village Nursing Home Felixstow
- • BUPA Modbury
- • Campbelltown Nursing Home Campbelltown
- • Gleneagles Aged Care Facility Hope Valley
- • Helping Hand Aged Care Inc North Adelaide
- • Italian Village St Agnes
- • LHI Retirement Services-Glynde Lutheran Homes Glynde
- • LHI Retirement Services Hope Valley Hope Valley
- • Masonic Homes Ridgehaven
- • St Georges Park Nursing Home Fitzroy
- • Kiandra Prospect
- • Churchill Court Kilburn
Western metropolitan
- • St Basil’s Homes Croydon Park
- • Flora McDonald Lodge and Nursing Home Cowandilla
- • RSL Villas Angle Park
- • The Pines Lodge Plympton North
- • Buckland Residential Care Plympton North
- • St Martin’s Aged Care Facility Marleston
- • Serene Nursing Home Lockleys
- • St Raphael’s Home for the Aged Lockleys
- • Semaphore Residential Care Centre Semaphore
Barossa region
- • Abbeyfield Society Inc Williamstown
- • Barossa Village Nuriootpa
- • Eudunda Senior Citizens Hostel Eudunda
- • Gilbert Valley Senior Citizens Home Riverton
- • Hamley Bridge Rest Home
- • Tanunda Lutheran Homes Tanunda
- • Kapunda Homes
- • Wheatfields Freeling
- • Mallala Community Hospital
- • Mill Court Balaklava
Adelaide Hills
- • Andrewartha Memorial Hostel Aldgate
- • Eldercare Sash Ferguson Mt. Barker
- • Hahndorf Residential Care Services Hahndorf
- • Hillside Lodge Heathfield
- • Glenview Homes Gumeracha
- • Onkaparinga Valley Residential Care Woodside
- • Restvale Lobethal
- • St Paul’s Lutheran Homes Hahndorf
- • Summerhill Aged Care Facility Uraidla
Click here for further information about the program or how to become a volunteer with LCC (SA/NT).
