The Plains

Gold Coast Aged Care welcomes The Plains in Eight Mile Plains, QLD 4113 residents are encouraged to personalise their rooms by bringing items from their previous home.

Residential Aged Care Facility of 108 beds (including 3 Respite places) The Plains aged care facility which opened in mid 2006 has 96 resident rooms all ensuited with eight being double rooms. Each of the eight 'houses' has its own kitchen dining room lounge family room and activities space. Upper floor houses have balconies where residents may relax enjoy the view or watch the comings and goings. Ground floor houses have their own spacious courtyards with gazebos and extensive landscaping. The village is blessed with an abundance of indoor and outdoor spaces for residents' and relatives' enjoyment. These include library 300-seat community hall café central courtyard town square swimming pool (with spa nook) barbeque pavilion pond area with gazebo children's playground and residents' workshop. A hairdressing salon is another well-used village amenity. The Plains is a little different from some other aged care facilities in that it operates on a 'house' (or 'lifestyle') model of care as opposed to a 'medical' model. This means that resident areas are as home-like as possible with no effort spared to avoid the institutional or hospital-like environments that characterise or used to characterise the traditional aged care facility. This difference is deeper than the physical fabric (which certainly does look and feel eminently home-like). For example at The Plains care is driven by residents' needs and preferences not routines.