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To help you keep your home clean and liveable. This can include:

• Help with making beds;
• Help with ironing and laundry; and,
• Help with cleaning like dusting, vacuuming and mopping.

Includes support to maintain social connections that promote and protect your lifestyle, interests and wellbeing.

To help you maintain your personal hygiene and grooming standards. This can include:

• Help with bathing, showering, toileting;
• Help with dressing/undressing;
• Assistance with getting in and out of bed;
• Help with washing and drying hair, shaving; and,
• Reminders to take your medication.

Services are designed to help you eat well. This can include:

• Help with meal preparation, including special diets for health, religious, cultural or other reasons (please note: the cost of individual food ingredients in meals that are prepared and delivered is not funded);
• Help with purchasing adaptive aids;
• Help with feeding (if necessary); and,
• Meal delivery services.

To increase or maintain your ability to move safely around your home. This can include:

• Installing easy access taps;
• Installing grab rails in the bath and/or shower;
• Providing advice on areas of concern regarding the safety of your home; and,
• Light gardening – weeding, pruning, lawn mowing, minor garden maintenance, clearing debris.

Aids and equipment to help with mobility, communication, reading and personal care limitations. This can include:

• Mobility aids like crutches, walkers, walking frames, walking sticks;
• Mechanical devices for lifting you in and out of bed;
• Electric lift chairs, bed rails; and,
• Aids like slide sheets, sheepskins, tri-pillows, pressure-relieving mattresses.

Social support both individually and in groups is available to encourage you to take part in social and community activities that promote and protect your lifestyle, interests and wellbeing.

These can include:

• Arranging for a visitor to make in-home social calls;
• Providing a companion to accompany you on appointments;
  (e visiting your GP) and outings (eg. shopping);
• Arranging social activities and providing or coordinating transport to social events;
• Someone to help set up phone and internet communication services to keep in touch with loved ones; and,
• A Community Support Worker supporting you in your home for a short period of time (for example, when your carer is away or unavailable).

These services are designed to help you manage particular conditions and maximise your independence at home.

These can include:

• Continence advisory services – assessment for, providing and assisting with continence aids such as disposable pads and absorbent aids, commode chairs, bedpans and urinals;
• Dementia advisory services;
• Vision and hearing services; and,
• Support for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.