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Australia's first publicly-funded residential eating disorder treatment centre to open in Canberra
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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8/22/2024
Australia's first publicly-funded specialist residential eating disorder treatment centre is set to open its doors in Canberra, welcomed by the families of patients.
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For people with an eating disorder, this specialist centre could soon be their home away from
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home.
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For David Quilty, whose young adult daughter has an eating disorder, the centre may form
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part of his caring journey in the future.
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One of the terrible things with eating disorders is it isolates sufferers.
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It's involving families and carers makes a huge difference.
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The sub-acute centre will care for those with anorexia bulimia and binge eating disorder
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who need more care than can be provided at home but don't need hospitalisation or intensive
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support like a feeding tube.
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It will be staffed by GPs, nurses, dietitians, exercise physio, a social worker and psychologists
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and psychiatrists as required.
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And will provide many different types of therapy including art, yoga and gardening.
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We can provide for people of all genders and all body shapes and sizes and it's a very
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inclusive space.
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It's sort of creating a whole new relationship with food and wellbeing and kind of that more
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holistic approach to recovery.
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At a cost of $13.5 million, the federally funded Residential Eating Disorder Centre
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has been a long time coming.
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Funding was first allocated in the federal budget for this centre and several others
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like it around the country in 2019.
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A non-hospital like environment has been promised in the centre that can care for up to 12 patients
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at any one time.
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With the first of those expected to arrive for initial appointments from next week.
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But it won't care for people aged under 16 despite parents of children with eating disorders
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telling the ABC there is a real need for this in the community.
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The kind of care that you provide to someone over 16 versus someone under 16 is quite different.
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For now, those patients will need to look elsewhere for support.
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The centre's first residents will arrive early next month.
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