Keeping an elderly family member in their own home can be an extremely rewarding process but it can take a lot of support to do so. Aged Care Support can provide assistance with management and supervision of daily care, medical and hospital care, help with rehabilitation after injury or illness, support with the day to day care of an elderly person, medication management and much more.
Aged Care Support provides assistance from a Registered Nurse. An initial meeting with family members will help determine the services that are required and a care plan can then be put in place.
The registered nurse will be able to provide you with expert advice and assistance in finding the right care for your family member. This could include a variety of funded and private in-home care or it could be helping with the transition into an aged care facility such as a rest home or serviced unit. Whatever your family members needs Aged Care Support will be able to guide and support you through this process.
There are many advantages to having a Registered Nurse caring for a family member including advanced medical assessment skills and relationships with other health care providers.
Having a friendly, approachable medical professional on hand to advocate for the elderly person and their families can help to make sense of illness or ongoing medical problems.
In the aged care facility
It may be that a elderly person is already in an aged care facility but family members are moving away or unable to visit as frequently as they would like. It could be that Aged Care Support can help extend the services that are already in place at the aged care facility. Our service can compliment existing resthome care or we can help with the transition from the home to residential care.