Burger Centre
Burger Centre is a joint venture between Montefiore and JewishCare, ensuring our clients receive the combined expertise, resources and commitment of these two well-respected and established organisations. Choose from our Randwick or Hunters Hill locations, Burger Centre specialises in person-centred day programs with a focus on smaller group sizes and positive ageing principles. The programs are designed to support individual care needs including hearing and vision impairments, mental health, as well as those living with Parkinson’s and dementia. Individuals from non-English speaking backgrounds and Russian-speaking members of the community are also a focus of our programs. Burger Centre provides peace of mind to carers seeking respite and enables each person to live their life to the fullest, no matter their age.
What we offer
Retaining skills
Hydro-cise
Dance for Parkinson’s classes
Fit2Fit
Social connection
Our locations
Burger Centres are located at our Randwick Campus, in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and at our Hunters Hill Campus. To make things easy, we offer bus transport to support access to our centres.
Frequently asked questions
Depending on whether you receive government assistance via a homecare package, the cost of attending the Burger Centre will vary:
- If you have had a My Aged Care (MAC) or an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) assessment and are still waiting for confirmation of government support, the cost of attendance will be subsidised. In most cases, the cost will be $30.
- If you are the recipient of a home support or Commonwealth Home Support Package (CHSP) package, payment will likely come from your package at an approximate cost of $95.
- Clients with mild to moderate dementia who are attending programs for respite are charged $115 from their Home Support Package.
During a conversation with the Community Engagement Coordinator, please advise if you are a recipient of a package and advise the name of your service provider. The coordinator will then follow up with the provider to set up a direct link for invoicing payments, so no payment will be required directly from you.
- For social connection
- For carer respite
- To learn a new skill
- Interested in a specific activity
- To access allied health services
If a client moves to a nursing home or hostel, the Burger Centre is no longer an option for them. Most residential facilities have an active leisure and lifestyle program and are included in the fees paid to the facility. However, the Burger Centre does have access to a small amount of funds to support Burger Centre clients who move into a non-Jewish residential facility and feel their cultural needs are not being met or are feeling socially isolated from the community. In these circumstances, please speak to the Burger Centre Manager who has the discretion to approve attendance.
A client may cease to attend the Burger Centre when:
- The individual no longer requires or desires the service, i.e., they may have moved away.
- The person’s functional ability, because of their dementia or other illness, requires care the centre is not able to support.
- Two people are required to assist with transfers.
- There is dual incontinence.
- Client behaviour adversely affects other clients at the centre and behavioural management strategies prove ineffective.
Staff members at the Burger Centre speak several community languages such as Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Hungarian and French. If you prefer to speak one of these languages, your orientation and assessment will be completed by one of our bilingual workers, or our skilled staff will be assisted by a confidential interpreter service. Due to the diversity of backgrounds of our members it is likely that while at the centre you will meet another client who speaks the same language as you.
