Home and community care program for younger people (HACC –PYP)

This involves working with your community care worker as a team and participate in household tasks that you are able to complete. The community care worker will assist with heavier tasks that you are unable to complete such as

• maintaining the hygiene of floor surfaces, 
• laundry and linen changes,
• maintain hygiene of shower baths and toilets,
• unaccompanied shopping or bill paying
• assisting with meal preparation

This service involves working with your community care worker to provide assistance to promote your welfare, activities of daily living and health and well-being. This service supports people to  be engaged in activities that are meaningful to them and encourages them to be connected with their community. The task provided by the community care worker will involve the following:

• Assistance with showering , bathing, undressing, dressing and toileting
• Grooming, shaving
• Medication prompting only
• Prescribed exercises or therapy programs with the direction of a health professional
• Mobility task within the occupational health and safety guidelines.
• Accompanied shopping or going out for coffee.

This service supports the primary carers of people living with disability. It gives them an opportunity to enjoy social activities, attend appointments, shopping or participate leisure activities.  Our dedicated team of community care workers will provide the following respite support to the care recipient:

• Planned regular respite allocated for few hours per week or fortnight
• Occasional respite allocated on an infrequent or irregular time
• Emergency respite allocated for urgent or unplanned respite

This service can include taking the care recipient to visit family, friends locally and access the local cafés or shops. Respite is not available for care of children from other households.

Our community care team run adult social group activities in Mortlake. The service offers recreation, socialisation and respite for people living with a disability.

Our day trips offer subsidised outings for clients and their carers to different destinations each year. The trips give clients an affordable outing while maintaining daily care, with support from qualified and experienced staff.

We can also organise support and access to programs and therapies for specific behaviours or conditions across the shire through health services.

This service allows clients to live in a safe environment. This includes preparing your home for the bushfire season and advice on potential home-safety risks, adequate level of security, access to technical advice on major home modifications

The main services council provides are:

• lawn mowing
• keeping pathways clear of shrubs and minor handyman tasks
• wiper snipping and some spraying
• changing smoke-detector batteries and light bulbs,
• minor modifications to the home, such as handrails and hand-held shower hoses.

An annual external window clean is available (height restrictions apply)