Community Home Australia (CHA) opened its third specialist aged care home, Kiah House, in the southern Canberra suburb of Wanniassa, last week and the three-bedroom home is already fully occupied.
"Kiah House is our latest home to provide community embedded accommodation and support services for people living with dementia and neurocognitive disability," said CHA Founder and Managing Director Rodney Jilek.
As is now a tradition for CHA, 'guests', as CHA refers to residents, helped to prepare the new home.
Not For Profit CHA now plans to build a fourth NDIS-compliant home suitable for high-level care adjacent to Kiah House.
NDIS-compliant Kiah House cost about $150,000 per bed to establish in the community, Rodney told The SOURCE.
The proposed new home will cost approximately $116,000 per bed - both are significantly lower than the approximately $400,000 it costs to build new residential aged care beds.
While CHA is primarily an NDIS provider, it has two private fee-paying residents.
Kiah means 'a beautiful place' in the Indigenous Kamilaroi language.
