Home & Community Care

Home and Community Care (HACC) Services provide supports to older Australians, younger people with a disability and their carers to enable them to live more independently at home in the community. The NRSDC HACC Development program aims to improve the capacity of HACC Service infrastructure to deliver quality services, which respond to client needs, including special needs groups and also to work collaboratively with the community service sector to build a strong cohesive community care system.

Family and Carer Mental Health Program

The Family and Carer Mental Health Program (FCMHP) in northern NSW provides a comprehensive range of free supports and services for families and carers of people with a mental illness. The program aims to ensure families and carers of people living with a mental illness receive appropriate support, information, education and skill development to fulfil their caring role, while maintaining their own health and wellbeing.

NRSDC's Ageing and Disability Digest - Vol 9

Read the latest information about Home and Community Care, including training opportunities, conferences and events, reports and interagencies in the latest edition of the NRSDC Ageing and Disability Digest. (September 19, 2011) NRSDC's Ageing and Disability Digest - Vol 9

Dementia Care Education Project

The Dementia Care Education Project provides direct support to carers of people living with dementia through the provision of education and information. The project provides small group education to the carers of people living with dementia. These carers are unpaid relatives or friends. More often than not they are the aged spouses living in rural and remote areas without formal support mechanisms and without public transport to get to services. The groups provide the carers with information about services, counselling, strategies to support them in their caring role and also referral to services that suit their needs.

Working Carers Gateway

The Working Carer's Gateway project is a website information service that provides support to low income and isolated carers in NSW who are juggling both caring and workplace demands.

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