Aged care residents still want to give back - Aged Care Insite

Aged care residents still want to give back - Aged Care Insite

When people think about aged care homes, they often picture residents as receivers – of care, meals, activities. What they rarely picture is residents as givers. Proving that misconception wrong is one of the more interesting parts of my job. Where I work, MAGC (Medical and Aged Care Group), residents are handcrafting worry dolls – more than 1100 of them a year – that go out into the community as small gifts of comfort. They’re baking sweet trea…