Existing research partners HammondCare and University of Canberra’s Centre for Ageing Research and Translation have expanded their agreement to include the first-ever residential dementia care village being developed in Canberra’s south. HammondCare won the ACT Government tender to develop a dementia care village on the site of the old Curtin Primary School on Carruthers Street. The Curtin village will be designed around small, homelike households, informed by HammondCare’s experience over 30 years at similar villages in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. “The ACT Government provided land to the successful tenderer, HammondCare, specifically to develop a world-class dementia village to provide care to Canberrans with dementia,” she said. HammondCare Curtin will provide 90 beds in single rooms with ensuites in small households.