Contemporary, integrated village transformation

Two new multistorey aged care homes will be added to the HammondCare site in Hammondville, south-west Sydney.

These facilities will be designed according to international best practice in terms of supporting those who live with dementia and other complex needs.

The site, covering about 12 hectares, is already home to the largest number of dementia-specific residential care beds in Australia. The two new aged care homes, expected to cost more than $63 million, will turn the Hammondville precinct into a contemporary, integrated village.

The new eastern aged care home for residents living with dementia will be called Jones, named after former Director of Care Services Olive Jones. Meanwhile, the new western building will provide general aged care services and be called Bond, after former Director of Nursing and HammondCare Board member Rosemary Bond.

Each care home will have three apartments, each with 15 ensuite rooms with a domestic kitchen and laundry based on HammondCare’s cottage model design, first developed in the 1990s. The apartments are intended to be familiar, comforting and homelike with easy access to the outdoors and balconies.

The project includes a new community hub featuring a general store designed for people with dementia, a hairdresser & barber, “The Watering Hole”, a men’s shed, community garden, kids’ playground and administrative spaces.

The Hammondville site presently offers residential care for nearly 300 residents, most living with dementia. Another 129 older people reside in independent living units. Around 500 staff are employed onsite.

Construction of the two new aged care homes is expected to begin in 2025, subject to the planning approval of a modification to the current development consent by Liverpool City Council.

Former HammondCare CEO Mike Baird, together with Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun, announced the 90-bed project to replace the older-style Bond House.

Baird said the project was a continuation of the legacy of Rev Bob Hammond, a man of great courage and vision, who began development at Hammondville in 1932 with a housing project for destitute families.

“This project is part of HammondCare’s ambition today to set the global standard of relationship-based care, for people with complex needs and to increase our care for those that others won’t or can’t,” he said.

Mannoun also welcomed HammondCare’s investment in world-class aged care accommodation for Liverpool. “Hammondville has an extraordinary history, special to the people of Sydney’s south-west, as a wonderful place for supporting people in need,” he said.

“First the need was housing for desperate families, then older people needing somewhere to live, and more recently the focus was support for people living with dementia.”

Image courtesy of HammondCare.