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The Home and Community care services are co-ordinated by your local council and are financially subsidised by the Federal and State Governments.
The HACC Active Service Program is designed to enable persons to stay in their homes with support for as long as possible. Our Support Workers will work with clients assisting with allowed tasks the client can no longer manage at the same time encouraging clients to actively participate in tasks they can still do, thereby preventing risk of premature entry into residential care. HACC services are provided to people who are frail aged, people with a moderate to severe disability, people with physical, functional, intellectual, sensory or psychiatric disability, people with acquired brain injury, carers and family’s who have a child with a disability and special needs groups.
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| The Glenelg Shire's Aged and Disability Services Manager is available to assist with any inquiries. For more information please contact Ms Samantha Sharp on 03 5522 2232 or by email:
Click here to email Samantha Sharp
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| Aged Care Australia and the Australian Health Directory | | Do you need information on aged care?
Want to know more about aged care services in your region?
Do you care for someone and need support?
Not sure where to start?
Then call 1800 200 422.
This number can provide a link to a wide range of community, aged care and support services that are available locally and nationally. The experienced workers who answer the phone can provide you with free and confidential information on:
• community aged care services to help you stay safely in your home
• these may include domestic assistance, home maintenance and modification, personal care, delivered meals and nursing care – you can also find out about these services using the Community Services Finder on this site
• your local Aged Care Assessment Team
• to access most government-funded aged care you first have to be assessed by health professionals called Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACATs) – you can also get contact details for your nearest ACAT using the ACAT Finder on this site
• carer support and respite services
• these services help carers with options to take a break through short-term and emergency respite (based on assessed need) and provide advice on and coordinate access to respite services in a carer's local area.
The Australian Health Directory takes its social responsibility to an elevated level. It combines commercial advertising with community services, assisting not-for-profit and public sector health care providers, and aged care facilities nation-wide to disseminate information on a pro-bono basis.
Not-for-profit organisations and support groups are very important contributors to the overall wellbeing of the nation as they create communities for people to connect with, learn to manage their illness better and enjoy a sense of belonging. This directory provides a platform for improved communication between these groups and their potential members.
The aged care directory that is part of Health Directory, has already demonstrated how health service providers and consumers can benefit from community service advertising. The aged care directory is already a valuable resource for potential residents, carers and hospital discharge planning staff. The directory enables users to find nursing homes and hostels within a desired radius around their postcode and to search for vacancies.
This directory is designed to make it easy for people within Australia and from other parts of the globe to navigate our health industry. There is no other vertical health market directory with a similar purpose - to connect service providers with consumers and B2B suppliers of the industry nation-wide, at a single point.
Please use the link below to access this useful directory:
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