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.

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

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.

A report from the NRMA claims that public transport is unsuitable for older people and that it is a myth that they can use it when they limit or stop driving. It highlights the very high growth in the number of older people in coastal regions such as the Richmond/Tweed and the South East.