• Launched in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lifeview’s award-winning Planting with a Purpose program has gone from strength to strength and is now the most popular, successful and rewarding lifestyle program across the provider’s four homes • Planting with a Purpose has reinvented the traditional generic aged care gardening program, to one with a vision, structure and purpose. There is often a tendency to want to do everything for people in care but through this program a sense of purpose is regained. Residents have taken ownership of the program and there has been a positive change in their physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing • Planting with a Purpose is garden to plate in its purest form • Lifeview operates four homes in south eastern Melbourne with over 80% of its residents living with some form of dementia