Rochester and Elmore District Health Service (REDHS) is your approved local provider of Home Care Packages.
Growing older can sometimes mean there are difficult times managing day-to-day activities.
REDHS is here to help support you or your loved one.
Home Care Packages with REDHS provides the local support and services to assist you to maintain your independence, health, community participation and to help you live comfortably and safely in your own home, for as long as possible.
Funded by the Commonwealth government, a Home Care Package can help you to continue doing the things important to you, bring you pleasure and stay connected with your local community.
REDHS will work with you to tailor care and services to best support your needs and goals.
Targeting older Australians who wish to remain living in their homes, the packages have no citizen or residency restrictions for access. To be eligible, you must be 65 years and older, or 50 and over for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
There are many ways REDHS can support you with its Home Care Packages:
■Personal care: Assistance with personal activities such as bathing, showering, toileting, dressing and undressing, mobility and communication.
Home care:
■Assisting with tasks such as vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, dusting, cleaning the bathroom, toilet and shower;
■Changing the bed linen, laundering of clothes and ironing;
■Shopping;
■Meal preparation;
■Mowing of the lawns and gardening;
■Household maintenance.
Transport for shopping and attending appointments.
Social support: The ability to do the social activities you love and enjoy.
Aids and equipment: Assistance to increase independence at home. For example: Shower chairs and personal alarms.
Clinical care:
■Medication management;
■Wound care and dressings;
■Continence support;
■Compression stockings.
Therapy Supports:
■Podiatry;
■Occupational Therapy;
■Dietician;
■A social worker;
■Physiotherapy;
■Diabetes educator;
■Exercise physiologist;
■Group Exercises.
For more information contact REDHS Home Care Package client advisor Susannah Hargreaves on 54844465, email intake@redhs.com.au or visit dhs.com.au and see how the package can make a difference in your life.
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