Quality Home Care in Alexandria, 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.

Broadly three. Help around the house and with daily tasks, personal care such as showering and dressing, and clinical care from a registered nurse. Most people start with one and add the others as needs change, which is why a care plan should be reviewed rather than set once and left.

It depends on the level of support you are assessed as needing, and Support at Home sets that from your assessment rather than a flat rate. What matters more than the headline figure is how much of it reaches actual care, because provider fees come out of the same pool. Ask any provider what proportion of the package they keep.

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.