Home Care Packages are for those with greater or more complex care needs. If you need many care and support services on an ongoing basis, you could be eligible for a Home Care Package. Home Care Packages provide a number of services to meet your needs. Depending on the level of Home Care Package you receive, you can get assistance with a range of different services:
Social outings, groups and visitors
- Arranging for a visitor to make in-home or telephone-based social calls
- Providing a companion to assist with shopping or getting you to an appointment
- Arranging social activities and providing or coordinating transport to social events
- Assistance setting up phone and internet communication services to keep in touch with loved ones
- A care worker visiting you in your home for a short period of time (for example, when your carer is away or unavailable)
Bathing, Hygiene and Grooming
- Help with bathing, showering, toileting
- Help with dressing/undressing
- Assistance with getting in and out of bed
- Help with washing and drying hair, shaving
- Reminders to take your medication
Meals and food preparation
- Help with meal preparation (including special diets for health, religious, cultural or other reasons)
- Meal delivery services (excluding the cost of food)
Cleaning, laundry, and other chores
- Help with making beds
- Help with ironing and laundry
- Help with cleaning like dusting, vacuuming, and mopping
- Help with unaccompanied shopping
Home or garden maintenance
- To maintain the home and garden in a condition of functional safety and provide an adequate level of security.
Changes to my home/ modifications
- Access to professional recommendations from a qualified occupational therapist
- Minor home modifications
- Assisting the care recipient, and the homeowner if the home owner is not the care recipient, to access technical advice on major home modifications,
Transport
- Scheduling transport service
- Providing access to external transport services
- Assistance with shopping, visiting health practitioners, and attending social activities.
Aids to stay independent
- Walking aids like crutches, quadruped walkers, walking frames, walking sticks
- Mechanical devices for lifting you in and out of bed
- Bed rails
- Aids like slide sheets, sheepskins, tri-pillows
- Pressure-relieving mattresses
- Access to professional recommendations from a qualified occupational therapist.
Podiatry, physiotherapy, and other therapies
- Speech therapy
- Podiatry
- Occupational therapy or physiotherapy services
- Other clinical services such as hearing and vision services
Help with impairments or continence
- Continence advisory services
- Dementia advisory services
- Vision and hearing services
Nursing
- Wound care and management
- Someone to help you take your medication
- General health and other assessments
- General health and treatment education to improve self-management
To start the process of receiving care in your home, contact My Aged Care and they will organise to get an assessment of your level of care.
When you receive your letter contact St Carthage’s Community Care to let them know:
- The assessment decision
- The level of package you have been approved for
- The reasons and evidence supporting the decision
Call St Carthage’s Community Care on 02 6620 0000 if you need any assistance.
Home Care Package Fees
Click here to view our My Aged Care Provider page which provides details on fees and charges.
FAQ’s – Home Care Package Services
Client Testimonial
“Anna called to tell us her father, Walter, will be transferred to permanent care. She said Walter is fading and not mobile and its sad that he has to go into a nursing home but he can’t go home. Anna thanked St Carthage’s for everything we have done for Walter saying ” you have been his life and all so wonderful”. Anne said he was very hesitant at the beginning to have assistance but it ended up being all he talked about and was company for him every morning.
Anna said it has been a pleasure dealing with St Carthage’s. I asked her to pass on our best wishes to Walter, saying we will miss his lovely gentle nature.”
ANNA – CLIENT’S DAUGHTER