Your Care

Home help

Whether you, or someone in your life, need to adjust a home set-up, need respite care or attend day therapy centres, there are many services around Australia to help you remain living at home, without sacrificing a good quality of life.

These centres have been set up around Australia to assist you to find care and support to continue living independently in your own home.

Are designed to be used if your care needs are more complex and you need help with bathing, meals, shopping and getting around.

To assist people to either maintain or recover a level of independence and enables them to remain either in the community or in a low-level aged care home.

Provides care at home at the level currently provided in a high care residential aged care facility.

HACC services may be provided by well known service providers such as your local council or Community Health Service or by smaller lesser known agencies.

A book designed to help older Australians, their families and those who care for them, with important lifestyle and housing decisions.

Promotes the concept of 'care in the community' and encourages and supports the involvement of volunteers in the provision of the Meals on Wheels service in Australia.

It enables text and voice telephony users to communicate with each other.

A free daily phone call, to check on your safety and wellbeing.

While still living at home, an older person may need access to respite or temporary care, to give either them or their carer a short break.

Provides a range of products, services and information to help older people and people with disabilities with their telecommunication needs.

If you have a diagnosed life-threatening medical condition without access to a fully-operational phone service, you may qualify to receive priority service.