Day Centre

What is the Day Centre and what does it do?

The Day Centre is a place where people come to meet friends, to find friends, to learn new things, to share a meal, a laugh, a story, to be cared for, to feel special, to give carers a break; it has a different role for each of us.

Clients of the Day Centre - Activity Time

Check out the Day Centre Newsletter for January and photos of a Day at the Day Centre pdf

The Day Centre is very exciting. We have a separate dining and activity area, as well as a quiet room and hairdressing / treatment room. We are particularly excited about having an outdoor undercover area and garden. We have visions of raised garden beds filled with tactile and perfumed plants, a bird bath, a vege patch and perhaps even a chook shed.

Dining Room

Spacious Activity Area

The Day Centre started operating in the late 70's, is a HACC funded service that operates 5 days a week and is the only formal day respite program in Murray Bridge and as such plays an important role in the lives of our clients and their carers.

Traditionally, Day Centres have been for frail elderly clients, this is no longer the case. Our clients range in age from 33 to 97. We have clients with dementia, aquired brain injury, parkinson's disease, vision impairment, Down syndrome, who are amputees, who have had strokes, who have mobility issues, speech deficts and other intellectual and physical disabilites. we also have clients who are neither frail nor disabled, but who attend the centre purely for a day out.

Another important aspect of what the day centre offers the community is the opportunities it provides for people to volunteer. We currently have 22 people who volunteer their time, energy, passion, enthusiasm and skills to the Day Centre. Our volunteers are as diverse a group as our clients.

Our program is very much a social and recreational one and we provide a varied and flexible program. Activities include reminiscence, games to stimulate and maintain physical and mental wellbeing, including Tai Chi and chair based exercises, our always popular outings which have seen us travel to places as far as Swan Reach, Willaston, Sellicks Beach and Tanunda to name a few.

Freindly Faces of the Day Centre

For more information please contact the Day Centre Coordinator on 8535 6800.

Following the death of their much loved pet therapist, Jack, last Boxing Day, the day centre has a 'trainee' pet therapist, Mazda, a retired greyhound. Mazda raced successfully as Zoom Zoom McLaren. He was adopted by Joanne, our Day Centre Coordinator in April from the Greyhound Adoption Program. He is settling in well to his new role, and has already developed a taste for battered fish, which he shares with the clients.

Mazda - 'trainee' Pet Therapist

Click on the link below to view our Day Centre Coordinator's (Joanne Miller's) beautiful farewell notice to two much loved members of our Day Centre who sadly passed away recently.