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RSL LifeCare - ADA Cottage — aged care facility

RSL LifeCare - ADA Cottage

93/95 Angus Ave, Kandos NSW 2848, Australia

★★★★★ 5/5 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.
Type
Residential aged care
Operator
not for profit
Nursing
24/7

RSL LifeCare ADA Cottage is a small residential care home situated in Kandos on the Central Tablelands of NSW, providing both low-care and high-care services for older Australians. With just 19 residents, it offers an intimate, personalised environment with around-the-clock staff presence to support medical, rehabilitative, and restorative care needs. The facility features a community BBQ and picnic area, access to chaplaincy and church services, and a broad planned activities programme including music therapy, art and craft therapy, bus outings, and exercise and wellbeing classes. Operated by RSL LifeCare, a not-for-profit organisation with deep ties to Australia's veteran community, the home is designed to foster a close-knit, homely atmosphere for every resident.

Amenities

  • ✓ BBQ area
  • ✓ outdoor areas
  • ✓ chapel
  • ✓ communal lounge

Activities & lifestyle

  • ✓ art
  • ✓ bingo
  • ✓ music therapy
  • ✓ bus outings
  • ✓ movie nights
  • ✓ social events
  • ✓ exercise classes
  • ✓ cultural activities

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).

5/5

Residents' experience

5/5

Compliance

5/5

Staffing

3/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 277 minutes per resident per day (target 204), of which 123 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).
None current

Fees

Fees not publicly disclosed by this provider.