Monika
Team Leader Home and Community Care Program
Migrant Resource Centre
Southern Tasmania
Our Seniors and Multicultural Clubs provide entertainment, a hot lunch at a reasonable cost and transport can be arranged if needed.
Community Aged Care
Community Aged Care Packages (CACP)
Also known as the Golden Age Package (GAP)
Helping older people to live at home
The Golden Age Package Program is a community based program that aims to help older people to remain living in their own homes by providing flexible services to suit individual needs. Services are provided by bicultural and bilingual workers.
Services Provided
A Golden Age Package can provide several services according to what you need and prefer. These may include:
- Personal care
- Meal preparation
- Laundry or home help
- Transport – assistance with shopping, visit to doctors or dentists or bill paying
- Social interactions – visit a relative, friend at home or in hospital, or attend church services or community activities, and
- Help with welfare related matters.
Eligibility Assessement
To be eligible, your needs will first be assessed by the Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) who will decide whether a care package is suitable for you. This assessment is free.
Pricing
Any fees charged will form part of the agreement between you and the service provider. The cost is very reasonable and you will not be denied a service you need because you can not afford to pay.
Advantages
- You are involved in deciding which care services are the most suitable for your needs
- You are able to receive services that takes account of your lifestyle, cultural and religious preferences
- you are invited to have a say in who provides the services in your home
- you are treated with dignity and have privacy respected
- you are able to make complaints and recommendations without fear of losing services, or being disadvantaged in any way
Community Aged Care Packages are funded by The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA)
Home And Community Care (HACC):
This program is designed to assist people from a non-English speaking background who are older or have a disability and their carers, with the support they may need to stay in their own homes and to identify what organisations can provide the services that they may need.
Client Worker services
Our Client Worker can assist with many problems such as access to:
- Housework
- Personal care
- Meals
- Transport
- Outside activities
- Medical appointments
- Legal or welfare matters
- Joining a healthy ageing group
- Visiting Pontville Cemetery
Bi-cultural staff
Our services are supported by bi-cultural staff who can speak Chinese, Vietnamese, Bahasa Malay, Indonesian, French, German, Serbian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish.
Multicultural Day Centre/Seniors Club
Migrant Resource Centre clients are welcome to join our Multicultural Day Centre/Seniors Club.
Day Centre sessions are held from 10am until 2pm and include activities ranging from entertainment and exercise to interesting information sessions. A hot lunch is included at a reasonable cost and transport can be arranged if needed.
Our current sessions are:
| German | Wednesday |
| Chinese | Thursday |
| Multicultural | Friday |
Phone the Day Centre Co-ordinator on 03 6221 0999 for more information
Community Development Officer
Our Community Development Officer will visit communities or groups and:
- Provide advice on all aged care services that are available
- Listen to your needs and develop an aged care program that is suited to your particular community
- Help government and service providers to understand your community’s needs
Trauma Support
Counselling is available for HACC clients and their families suffering from torture and war trauma prior to their arrival in Australia.
How can you get help?
Phone: (03) 03 6221 0999
Fax: (03) 6231 1264
Email: reception@mrchobart.org.au
This Home And Community Care program is funded by Home and Community Care – a joint Commonwealth and State/Territory Program
Thank You to our Associated Agencies
