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Adelaide’s exciting Carers Lounge for carers at the Royal Adelaide Show presented by sacare

Wednesday, August 31st 2022

Left to right — Chloe Kempe (SACARE CEO), Jake and his mum Karina McDonald (Marketing Coordinator at SACARE)

The hustle and bustle of the Adelaide Show is exciting and, at times, overwhelming. For those with sensory sensitivities or complex medical needs, it may be too much.

The challenges faced navigating the show with wheelchairs, finding a hygienic space to administer medications or special feeding requirements meant for some of our community, sometimes, the easier option may be to just stay at home.

Until this year.

The South Australian Business Chamber member sacare are excited to work together with fellow the South Australian Business Chamber member Link Assistive and the Adelaide Show to host the Carers Lounge. A thoughtfully created space for carers, support workers, families, and people with disability to unwind or tend to medical requirements in comfort, quiet and with dignity.

From lived experience to a relaxing experience. This idea was sparked by a frustration with the lack of private, clean places to feed a child through a special tube directly into his tummy. The team at sacare have taken the idea and made it a reality.

sacare’s CEO Chloe Kempe explains there will be a sensory space for children and adults wanting to take time out from the noise and excitement of the show.

It will be fully fitted out with high-tech multisensory equipment, kindly donated by Link Assistive, it will feature interactive screens, bubble tubes, fibre optic lights and a magic carpet’, she says.

Adjoining the multi-sensory room will be a kitchen and lounge area with complimentary coffee, an area for feed and medicine preparation, medical equipment cleaning and comfortable seating to administer medications and food.

Next door to this, there will be an accessible change room complete with a height adjustable change table, hoist, and all the mod cons for both carer and person with disability to tend to personal needs in a hygienic and comfortable setting.

Link Assistive’s dedicated sensory division, Link Sensory, is excited to be a part of the Carers Lounge and will be supplying and setting up the sensory technology that will be in this space. 

We think it’s important to be involved in our local community and are excited for members of the SA public to be able to experience the calming and engaging benefits of the sensory technology we supply as part of our sensory room design and install service, says Managing Director Bas Tijdhof.

Link Assistive supports the inclusion of sensory spaces at community events to allow attendees with disabilities and sensory processing differences to take some time out and be soothed by the calming sights and sounds that our technology offers”.

Collaboration brings comfort and consideration for carers.

The Carers Lounge is a collaboration to bring inclusion to the fun and festivities to the well-loved annual event. 

sacare’s aim is to give the disability community the same access and experience that everyone has a right to. With a reputation for asking how to’ instead of accepting what is’, sacare are bold and dynamic in our delivery of services and accommodation settings. 

The Carers Lounge is free to access and sure to reunite ALL Adelaide families and friends. Open from 9am to 9pm daily, you can find this next to The Learning Centre and Tasting SA.

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