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URL: http://www.greatershepparton.com.au/residents/ageddisability/veterans_home_care.html
Veterans' Home Care
Veterans' Home Care is a Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) program that helps veterans and war widows/widowers with low care needs to remain in their own homes for longer.
Veterans' Home Care extends the range of home support services provided by DVA to veterans and war widows/widowers to include:
- Domestic assistance
- Personal care
- Home and garden caintenance (limited to 15 hours per year)
- Respite care (in-home and emergency respite and approval for residential respite)
Veterans' Home Care can:
- Assess all your home care needs
- Enable you to access a full range of care services you are assessed as needing through a single entry point
- Determine an appropriate plan of support and care for you
- Refer you if necessary, to other DVA or community based benefits and services
Services such as Meals on Wheels are provided through arrangements with State and Territory Governments. DVA already provides community nursing, home modifications, other allied health services and rehabilitation appliances.
Who is eligible for Veterans' Home Care?
To be eligible for a Veterans' Home Care assessment a person must be:
- a veteran of the Australian defence forces; or
- an Australian mariner; or
- a defence or war widow/widower of a veteran of the Australian defence forces or an Australian mariner;
and have:
- a Repatriation Health Card - for all conditions (Gold Card); or
- a Repatriation Health Card - for specific conditions (White Card)
Who is not eligible for Veterans' Home Care
Partners and carers are not eligible for Veterans' Home Care services unless they have their own Gold or White Card. However, they are still eligible for respite care if they care for a veteran or war widow/widower. Commonwealth and Allied veterans are eligible for respite care related to their disabilities but not other Veterans' Home Care services.
Both these groups can be assessed for home support services through the Home and Community Care (HACC) program.
Contact the Shepparton office on 1300 550 450.