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What is Home Care in Melbourne?

If you or someone you know is considering moving into residential aged care but are not ready to leave their home, then Home Care may be an appropriate alternative.

Begin your search for Home Care in Melbourne and Home Care in Victoria.

Home Care can help elderly people by providing part-time services such as housework, meal preparation and health care. To determine to what extent of Home Care is needed, the individual needs to be assessed by an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) which in most cases will be free.

They will place the individual into one of four categories:

• Level 1 - basic care needs
• Level 2 - low level care needs
• Level 3 - intermediate care needs
• Level 4 - high level care needs

What is Home Care?

Home Care in Sydney can help elderly people by providing part-time services such as housework, meal preparation, health care et cetera. Therefore if you or someone you know needs help with these tasks but is not ready to move into residential aged care, then Home Care may be something to consider.

To determine what extent of Home Care is needed, the individual needs to be assessed by an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) which is a free service provided by the Australian Government.