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IDSC Aged Care Service

96/78 Dumfries Ave, Northgate SA 5085, Australia

★★★★☆ 4/5 My Aged Care Star Rating The Star Rating is the Australian Government's overall quality rating for residential aged care, from 1 star (significant improvement needed) to 5 stars (excellent). It is calculated from the four areas shown under Quality & compliance below: residents' experience, compliance, staffing and quality measures.

Google reviewers rate this 4.8★ (8 reviews)

Type
Residential aged care
Operator
not for profit

IDSC Aged Care Service in Northgate is an aged care and disability support service operating from Adelaide's inner northern suburb of Northgate, providing home care, community support, and aged care coordination for older adults and people with disability across Adelaide's northern metropolitan area. The organisation delivers support services under aged care and NDIS programmes to enable clients to remain living independently in their own homes or to access appropriate community services, serving Adelaide's diverse northern inner suburbs. Northgate's accessible inner-northern location provides convenient access to a wide client catchment including the diverse communities of Enfield, Blair Athol, and Prospect.

Allied health services

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Cultural & language fit

Languages
English

Quality & compliance

My Aged Care sub-ratings

The star rating, broken down (May 2026 extract): The four areas the Australian Government scores every home on each quarter — the overall Star Rating is calculated from them. Source: the Department of Health and Aged Care's Star Ratings quarterly data extract (May 2026).

3/5

Residents' experience

5/5

Compliance

5/5

Staffing

1/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 326 minutes per resident per day (target 238), of which 51 from a registered nurse.

Compliance action The regulator (the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission) can take formal action when a home falls short of the standards — from a direction to improve, up to a Notice of Non-Compliance or sanctions. "None current" means no action was recorded against this home in the Government's latest quarterly extract (May 2026).
Notice of Non-Compliance (NCN)

Fees

Fees not publicly disclosed by this provider.

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