Supporting Carers with coordinating Home Care Packages Looking after others can be challenging in many ways, which is why we need to make carers' lives easier. As we grow older, we hope there will be someone around to look after us - especially if we also have other caring challenges with long-term disabilities or illness. Providing such care is often personally challenging in so many ways - physically, emotionally, mentally, financially - with carers experiencing stress, exhaustion, anxiety and depression. If we want family and friend carers to keep looking after us when we're elderly, we need to make sure that someone is looking after them. Carers ACT can coordinate Home Care Packages and be the one point of contact, saving time and stress. A Home Care Package offers greater flexibility and choice, encouraging you to have a say about what is important to you, the type of care you want to receive and how you want to receive it. Our Care Planners will work with you to identify goals and strategies by linking your services to outcomes. Goals could be related to your mobility, health and well-being or social Quote from an ACT client "Neville "When my wife passed away, I was heartbroken, I was lead to believe that I would now need to go into permanent residential care because of my health issues. / was full of despair as this meant that I had to leavemy home filled with memories and find a home for my dog Molly. Through a referral from a health professional, I was put in contact with Carers ACT Home Care Package Co-ordination. They mat with me, listened to my needs and tailored an individual plan for me. I worked in partnership with them to get equipment and mobility aids, transport and other services and allows me to continue to live safely and independently in my home with Molly" activities. As an independent provider Carers ACT provides the flexibility to choose and change own service providers and you can use 85% of your package directly for your chosen goods and services. CarersAcT For more info call 6296 9922 or email hcp@carersact.org.au Supporting Carers with coordinating Home Care Packages Looking after others can be challenging in many ways, which is why we need to make carers' lives easier. As we grow older, we hope there will be someone around to look after us - especially if we also have other caring challenges with long-term disabilities or illness. Providing such care is often personally challenging in so many ways - physically, emotionally, mentally, financially - with carers experiencing stress, exhaustion, anxiety and depression. If we want family and friend carers to keep looking after us when we're elderly, we need to make sure that someone is looking after them. Carers ACT can coordinate Home Care Packages and be the one point of contact, saving time and stress. A Home Care Package offers greater flexibility and choice, encouraging you to have a say about what is important to you, the type of care you want to receive and how you want to receive it. Our Care Planners will work with you to identify goals and strategies by linking your services to outcomes. Goals could be related to your mobility, health and well-being or social Quote from an ACT client "Neville "When my wife passed away, I was heartbroken, I was lead to believe that I would now need to go into permanent residential care because of my health issues. / was full of despair as this meant that I had to leavemy home filled with memories and find a home for my dog Molly. Through a referral from a health professional, I was put in contact with Carers ACT Home Care Package Co-ordination. They mat with me, listened to my needs and tailored an individual plan for me. I worked in partnership with them to get equipment and mobility aids, transport and other services and allows me to continue to live safely and independently in my home with Molly" activities. As an independent provider Carers ACT provides the flexibility to choose and change own service providers and you can use 85% of your package directly for your chosen goods and services. CarersAcT For more info call 6296 9922 or email hcp@carersact.org.au