Quality Home Care in Dee Why, Right at Home

There is no single price. Under Support at Home your contribution is worked out from your income and assets as assessed by Services Australia, and your funding covers the rest. Two people in the same street can pay quite different amounts. The only way to know where you stand is to have the assessment done, and we can explain what the result means in practice.

That rule belongs to residential aged care, not home care. It refers to the number of days of leave a resident can take from a facility each year while keeping their place. Home care has no equivalent, because the care comes to the person rather than the person moving into a facility. If you go away or into hospital, services simply pause and restart.

Nobody is turned away from government funded home care because of their financial situation. Contributions are assessed on income and assets, and there are hardship provisions for people who genuinely cannot pay. If money is the thing stopping you asking for help, say so, because it is a more common conversation than most families expect.

Not directly through a home care package, which pays for services rather than family members. Depending on circumstances you may be eligible for Centrelink's Carer Payment or Carer Allowance, which are separate. What a package can do is fund respite, so the caring you are already doing becomes sustainable.