Home Support Services

Southern Grampians Shire Council has made the in-principle decision at its Council Meeting on Wednesday 10 November 2021 to transition the provision of aged and disability services to a new provider.

Council will host a number of drop-in information sessions from 18 November 2021 on the Mobile Library across all townships where impacted clients and families are invited to hear more information about the process. Dates and locations are as follows:

**Due to the recent COVID outbreak within the Southern Grampians, some of the below township sessions have now been rescheduled. Revised dates have been added below.

Dates and locations are as follows:

• Glenthompson: 1:30pm - 2:30pm, 18 November 2021, Glenelg Highway (Alongside the pool)
• Mirranatwa: 3:30pm - 4:30pm, 18 November 2021, School Road (at the Hall)
• Cavendish: 10:00am - 11:00am, 9 December 2021Barker Street (Opposite the Hall)
• Dunkeld: 12:00pm - 1:30pm, 9 December 2021, Glenelg Highway (Alongside the Pool)
• Penshurst: 3:00pm 4:00pm, 9 December 2021, Martin Street (Volcano Centre)
• Balmoral: 10:00am - 12:00pm, 10 December 2021, Stirling Street ( Apex Park)
• Coleraine: 2:00pm - 4:30pm, 10 December 2021, Glenelg Highway (opposite the Post Office)
• Hamilton: 10:00am - 12:00pm, 19 November 2021, 5 Market Place (Martin J. Hynes Auditorium) and 2:00pm - 4:00pm, 22 November 2021, 5 Market Place (Martin J. Hynes Auditorium)

Home Care can help you with simple household tasks to help maintain a safe, secure and healthy home environment.
Services are designed to promote wellbeing and the capacity to live independently and safely in your own home, by doing a task with you, not for you.

Community Support Workers provide support with tasks such as:

Personal care helps with the activities of daily living which you would previously have done for yourself but are no longer able to due to frailty disability or ill health. This service is flexible in supporting your needs as they change.

Services can include:

This service helps with activities outside the home to help you remain independent within the community by providing a Community Support Worker to assist you to access health and social engagements.

Activities such as:

Respite Care is designed to give your regular carer a break from their caring duties by providing a Community Support Worker so that they can take an opportunity to enjoy social activities, attend appointments, shopping or participate in leisure activities. Respite can be planned on a regular basis or simply taken as required. Depending on your wishes and level of care require, respite can take place either in home or out of home.

Our Meals on Wheels (MOW) program is designed to deliver nutritionally-balanced meals to your home within the community. We cater to your individual needs and/or circumstances, whether you have a special diet or cultural requirement.
Fresh chilled meals are delivered in Hamilton and Coleraine weekdays and frozen meals are available for weekends and rural areas and outlying towns.

Home Maintenance is available to help you maintain a safe home environment with “handyman” jobs which do not require specific trade skills.

Suitable tasks include:

Please note that this is not a full or ongoing gardening service, it is done to provide a safe and secure home environment while providing improved well being and independence.

Our Community Transport Service is available for eligible clients to assist with access to the community.

The Hamilton service operates from 10am to 3pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, within the Hamilton and Tarrington areas.

A fortnightly return service also runs from Glenthompson and Dunkeld to Hamilton and Coleraine to Hamilton.

To determine your eligibility for Home Support Services clients need first to be assessed. At your assessment you can discuss and decide what assistance and services you need to help keep you safe, supported and independent in your community. Eligibility criteria is set by State and Federal Governments. Clients aged 65 and over (or 50 and over for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island) are funded by the Federal Government under the Commonwealth Home Support Program. To access this program you need to be registered through My Aged Care and referred for appropriate assessment. Please contact My Aged Care phone 1800 200 422 to register.

For clients under 65 years of age (or 50 and under for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island) are funded by the Home and Community Care Program for Younger People. To access this program please call Council on 5551 8480 for an appointment for an assessment.
For further information about Commonwealth Home Support Program
www.myagedcare.gov.au
For further information about Home and Community Care Program for Younger People please click here

Contact
Frances Hewett Community Centre
2 Roberts Street
Hamilton Vic 3300
Phone (03) 5551 8480
TTY (03) 5573 0458

Note | A TTY is a special device that lets people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-impaired use the telephone to communicate, by allowing them to type messages back and forth to one another instead of talking and listening. A TTY is required at both ends of the conversation in order to communicate.