Home Care Packages - What are they? 

Definitely interested in a video about what you can't use funding for. Eg some providers will 'allow' spending on specialised shoes or continence wear, others won't. Great 'disappointment' or dissatisfaction often comes from Clients who have unrealistic expectations. Thanks for the great HCP run-down. I'm going to recommend to others.

Thank you for this session. It has helped me understand (in brief) what I needed to know. The basics as it were. Yes I would love to see more of these as I am at that age where it is something I have to think about for my husband and myself, plus, being a nurse and working in aged care, is important knowledge for me.

Good to have the history

Thank you

Due to a shortage of labour could you do a video on sub contactors and the approval process. ie need for invoice and reimbursement.

What happens if they need more support than their package can provide? I am interested to know. Thank you for the video it is really helpful.😊👍

Good presentation but we didn't really need the lengthy history lesson. Also, I wanted information from the consumer's point of view but this presentation seemed to be aimed only from the HCP provider's perspective, though I did get some useful information. But what I still cannot ascertain is how much a Centrelink pensioner would be required to actually pay directly from their pension, typically, to access,say, Level 1 care. Nobody seems to discuss that but another pensioner told me to forget HCP and just directly hire ordinary domestic help cleaners,gardeners etc to help you,as needed because you still have to pay out money to HCP workers from your meagre welfare pension, even though the government has so generously subsidised such potentially very helpful Home Care for aged/disabled people. The other thing I and others want to know us: If you get offered a package, are you obliged to start using it immediately or can you wait until you get seriously incapable of doing things for yourself and then draw on the HCP for necessary help ue when you feel you really need it because you just can"t do it for yourself any more or just too bloody old? And one final question, if a HCP consumer is allocated, say a level 1 care package, which might specify a set number of hours of care daily or whatever, do they have to stick to this rigid routine care eg same time, same place to get whatever care is signed by up to or? Or can it be some sorts of occasional care an otherwise healthy, self sufficient senior might need eg you go to have a colonoscopy and you are perfectly OK afterwards but you are required to have someone drive you home and stay with you the whole night, but you have nobody, are not allowed to catch a taxi safely home or even stay at a motel nearly the same hospital, like happens where I live. So a person might only need to access such obligatory care, say, once every three years. They don't need a carer dropping by regularly, on a routine basis. How would that work? Given that now, there will soon be a law that specifies carers must get a minimum of two hours caring work or be paid for a minimum of two hours, each visit they do. Who pays them for this 2hours minimum? The government or the pensioner, directly from their welfare pension pay, when they get invoices by their HCP provider? It's a very well intentioned and potentially very beneficial service by both our government and carers alike,xwho mostly do a good job and deserve to be fairly rewarded but it sounds like a very convoluted, massive, complex nightmare of a bureaucracy for consumers to have to try and navigate understand etc fully and many consumers of HCP confirm this, to me, from bad experiences with it. And because it is complex and somewhat lacking in transparency, in some respects, HCP would be a system very vulnerable to abuses by eg unscrupulous providers etc. We like to think these don't exist but the reality is, like we have seen with bad residential care facilities during COVID, the do exist. And help aged care inmates and HCP recipients who often have caring family, hence need for such care, are powerless to do anything about the financial anther abuses they are so vulnerable to being exposed to. This doesn't imply the entire Aged/disability industry is bad. There are some excellent providers and care workers. But there are also the other kind, hopefully just a rare irity, but it only takes a few unscrupulous ones to give entire industry a very bad reputation that puts seniors off even bothering to apply for a HCP, even if they need one. There needs to be much tighter control, auditing etc by the government over how the money it so generously provides to help the elderly is spent. In other words, who is it REALLY helping? The HCP provider's and carers personal finances? Or the consumer's care needs? Some answers please, if you can provide these.

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Why does the system put the burden on the client to write the notes.? Perhaps there should be a register the worker can sign off.

Is there a email that I can contact you directly?

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