Bishop Davies Court Kingston, OneCare

14/01/2026

18/12/2025

Thank you to our amazing team!🎄✨🎉

As the year comes to an end, we want to celebrate the incredible people who care for our residents every day. Their compassion, professionalism, and dedication make OneCare a place where dignity and respect are at the 💙 of everything we do.

To our staff: thank you for going above and beyond, not just during the festive season, but all year round. And to our residents and families: thank you for being part of our community. 🙏

From all of us at OneCare, we wish you a joyful Christmas and a safe, happy New Year 🎆 We'll be taking a little social media pause over the break - see you in 2026!

16/12/2025

We made personalised Christmas baubles for our residents to decorate the tree 🎄 Here are Dot, Jenny, Leasha, Maureen and Barry hanging theirs in pride of place!

16/12/2025

Our residents are looking picture perfect in the leadup to Christmas! 🎅🎄🎁

15/12/2025

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Bishop Davies Court! 🎄🍗🎅

Last week we hosted a Christmas party for residents, where families joined us for a lovely afternoon of food, music and laughs.

Thanks to our L&L team, kitchen crew and wonderful volunteers for such a lovely day of festive fun!

03/12/2025

Congratulations to our resident Elaine and her husband Rex, who recently celebrated 63 years of marriage! 🤵👰‍♀️💒

Rex worked with Kylie from our Leisure & Lifestyle team to surprise Elaine with an anniversary celebration at our cafe last month 🥰 The lovebirds met at the Belvedere Ballroom in 1961, have four boys, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild, and say always being honest is the secret to their long marriage.

Thanks to the Kingborough Chronicle for featuring their story!

27/11/2025

He's baaaaaaaaack! 🦌

With Christmas on the way, it's time for our annual competition to see which OneCare home can get the most creative (and mischievous) with their resident reindeer.

Rodney joined our recent outing to the casino, and brought a little Christmas magic along when Jenny had a flutter! 🎰

24/11/2025

🗣️Have your say on how you're supported - join the Older Tasmanian Ministerial Advisory Council. 🤝

Click through to the post for more info and the application link: EOIs close 27 January 2026.

Expressions of interest are now open for members of the new Older Tasmanians Ministerial Advisory Council.

Up to five community members will be part of the council. They will provide advice and insights about issues affecting older Tasmanians, based on their lived experience.

For more information and to apply, visit www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/cpp/community-policy-and-engagement/older_persons/older-tasmanians-ministerial-advisory-council-call-for-members

Applications close 27 January 2026.

COTA (Council On The Ageing) Tasmania

20/10/2025

We celebrated in style last week, capping off our Huon River excursion with a BBQ lunch! 🥂

Students from Kingston High School Tasmania and Woodbridge School, including the wonderful kids of some of our staff, came along to run the grills 🌭 it was lovely to welcome many of our community to join us, including hosting residents from Barossa Park Lodge Glenorchy, OneCare.

15/10/2025

We took a trip down the Huon Valley this week, enjoying lunch in Huonville and then onto Franklin for a river cruise 🛥️

We learned some fascinating history about vessels built and restored at the Wooden Boat Centre Tasmania, and were particularly taken by 'Nancy'.

Nancy was built in 1917 in Battery Point by AA 'Tucker' Abel, a well-known local boat builder who specialised in motor launches, for Hobart ferry operator Harry Rowe. She was originally christened as Rowella. Abel's yard was destroyed by fire in 1917, meaning Nancy could have been one of the last craft built there.

In her heyday she operated as a ferry on the Derwent River for almost 40 years until at least the 1950s, work and houseboat, and even a flying boat tender around Hobart.

She later became very dilapidated and was, at one stage, on the point of being wrecked when she was discovered and rescued by Graham Dicker, who employed the shipwright Mick Hubbard to repair the hull. Nancy is now owned and operated by the Living Boat Trust.

We also spotted the old Cartela which many of us remembered plying the Derwent, and some wonderful bird life 🦅

14/10/2025

It was such a thrill for our resident Kathleen and L&L Coordinator Emma to take to the stage for the COTA (Council On The Ageing) Tasmania Generations Connect: Tech Together program celebrations! 🎤📱

We were honoured to join the panel discussion and share with everyone how much we've enjoyed the program, and all the ways residents have benefited from taking part.

We'll have our next group of students through in two weeks, and applaud COTA on this brilliant initiative that gives so much to everyone involved 👏👏 We look forward to seeing it in all Tasmanian aged care homes!