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Bombala’s aged care centre reopens in NSW Snowy Mountains with help from town’s nude calendar
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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6/23/2024
Aged care and nude calendar. It is the most unexpected alliance, but it is how a country town managed to save its local aged care facility. And it is their revolutionary funding model that is grabbing the most attention.
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When Karen Brownlee in Bombala, NSW, was trying to figure out how to save her town's aged
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care centre, she would never have thought she'd end up getting her kid off for the
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cause.
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I don't think it was shock, I think it was like, really?
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You're going to do that?
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Your game.
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The local community bared all to raise funds for its beloved assisted living centre, Karawana,
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which has just reopened its doors after two years out in the cold.
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This was their home, and this was our little home together where we cared so deeply for
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them that they'd become like family.
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Rosie Gillespie-Jones was a nurse at Karawana before its closure in April 2022 due to staffing
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shortages.
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The two dozen residents were moved away from Bombala to find care.
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Some had to go five hours away to Sydney.
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I think we were heartbroken.
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I don't think anybody saw it coming.
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To have them moved two, three hundred kilometres away is absolutely gut-wrenching for many
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of the families.
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That's Keith Campbell, a local farmer who was instrumental in saving Karawana.
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With a PhD in agricultural economics, he found out he could use his knowledge in an unlikely
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way to help the aged care facility reopen as a residential boarding facility.
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It removes some of the very onerous regulation that's required for a full-blown high-care
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residential aged care facility.
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Keith came to the meeting with a document, he'd done a budget, and said, look, if we
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open it up as assisted living, we need a million dollars.
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And we all sort of took a big deep, oh my God, you know.
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But for Karen, who used to run Karawana, it was worth fighting for.
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And she could hardly believe her eyes when the donations surpassed their goal of $100,000.
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When I was doing my shopping or going to collect the mail, and open, oh Karen, quick, I haven't
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seen you.
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Here, they'd open their purse and give me $50 or $20.
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I think we're amazing.
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And I get very emotional.
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The nude calendar was just a fraction of the $340,000 raised by the community, but
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it's what grabbed the most attention.
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And it's not just bodies on display, it's the brains too.
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Karawana's full business model is on show, and it's inspired others to take a leaf out
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of their books.
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There are a lot of people watching this space and watching us, and it's a real credit to
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the community and to the committee that we've got it going.
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