Residents at Holmwood Aged Care celebrated the First Birthday of our new wing Townsend this month. With much to celebrate, everyone enjoyed a delicious morning tea birthday party with live entertainment and good old-fashioned fun! Rachael Beever, Facility Manager,...
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At Holmwood Aged Care, we love Christmas so much we celebrate it twice! For a bit of mid-winter cheer, we have celebrated Christmas in July. Everyone had fun decorating the lounge areas with beautifully adorned trees and all the...
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Our residents love our Monthly “Big Breakfast Banquet” here at Holmwood. They love starting their day with a feast for the ages. The dining room was open from 8am to...
You get a super fun and exciting activity for all to enjoy! Children keep us young and continuously keep us on our toes. Our residents are loving our inter-generational program with visiting children from a local childcare centre, Robyn...
Thursday’s are for Spa Days! Who doesn’t love a little pampering and TLC? Residents are loving the new weekly Holmwood Day Spa activity. The sitting room is converted into a sub-tropical paradise with lots of lush greenery, quiet surrounds,...
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”- Josh Billings Pet therapy is a favourite program at Holmwood, and our residents were recently inundated with four-legged friends at our Paws party. ...
Holmwood Aged Care was delighted to have Kaye, the great granddaughter of Melina Townsend visit the home! Our new extension opened in August 2018 and is named ‘Townsend’. This was named after Kaye’s great grandmother Melina Townsend. Melina Townsend...
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. – Laurence Binyon April 25th, 2019 marks the 105th anniversary of the commencement of World War One. 105 years on, and there are few...
Holmwood Aged Care officially opened its new 38 residential room extension with the assistance of Mayor of Yarra Ranges, Cr Tony Stevenson. The celebrations took place on Thursday, 4th April that included guest speakers Cr Tony Stevenson and Rob...
Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent. Traditionally a time of fasting, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” this means that they were absolved from their sins. The other...