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Home & Community Care (HACC)
Address
Level 4, Riverside Centre North Tce, Adelaide, SA 5000
Telephone
08 8415 4250
Fax
08 8415 4233
Email
Website
Postal Address
PO Box 70, Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000
Eligibility
Based upon assessed need
Comment
Administered by Disability, Ageing and Carers through the Department for Families and Communities. The HACC program aims to: provide a comprehensive, coordinated and integrated range of basic maintenance and support services for frail older people, people with a disability and their carers support these people to be more independent at home and in the community, thereby enhancing their quality of life and preventing their premature or inappropriate admission to long term residential care provide flexible, timely services that respond to the needs of these people.
Services
- Services funded through the HACC Program include, but are not limited to
- Allied Health Care
- Nursing care - provided by a registered or enrolled nurse
- Personal care - assistance with self-care tasks such as bathing, toileting, dressing, grooming and eating
- Meals and other food services
- Domestic assistance - cleaning, dishwashing, laundry, ironing, shopping, bill paying
- Home maintenance - minor work such as changing light globes, repairing doors and windows, replacing tap washers, lawn mowing, rubbish removal
- Home modification - including installation of rails, ramps, emergency alarms, minor renovations
- Transport
- Respite care - to give carers time away from their caring role
- Counselling, support, information and advocacy
- Veterans and war widows may be eligible for a similar range of support services from the Department of Veterans' Affairs Veterans' Home Care program
