This brings to an end a long history of aged care, voluntary aged care in Collinsville, Cr Brunker said. I know when it first closed there was a huge panic in Collinsville and the council came to the fore to try and fill that gap. The best we could do was independent living and unfortunately as people are in all communities, elderly people, they are proudly independent. It was getting to a situation where they only wanted to move when they couldn t live in their own house and unfortunately they would be bypassing this facility and going straight to the aged care at Collinsville Hospital or down to Bowen.