Community Care Packages

Community Care Packages

As we get older, the familiar and comforting surroundings of a home environment and a friendly local community become more important.

In your own villa or apartment you feel safe, secure and content. But for many elderly people, the daily challenges of looking after themselves can become too much. Community Care Packages help clients to live a dignified and rewarding life by providing the quality care and professional services they need to enable them to remain in their retirement villa or apartment for longer.

Three individually planned and coordinated packages of care are available catering for the varying needs of residents who would otherwise be eligible for low, high and dementia residential care, but choose to live in their retirement villa or apartment.

As the cost associated with delivery of Community Care Packages is subsidised by the Commonwealth Government, residents must be assessed by an Aged Care Assessment Service (ACAS) as requiring the necessary level care. The ACAS assessments are free of charge and further information is available from doctors, hospitals and community centres, the Aged and Community Care Information Line on 1800 500 853, or Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centres on 1800 052 222.

The Aged Care Assessment Service will determine which type of Community Care Package best suits residents' needs. Currently these packages comprise the following:


Community Aged Care Packages (CACP)

Community Aged Care Packages deliver a range of care and other domestic services to clients who would be eligible for low care. Services and care offered as part of a CACP Package may include the following:

  • Supervision and assistance with showering, bathing and personal hygiene, dressing, undressing, mobility and monitoring of medications
  • Assistance with the provision of meals
  • Home care for domestic tasks such as cleaning, laundry and shopping
  • Assistance with transportation to appointments and social activities
  • Ongoing coordination and management of care
  • 24-hour emergency contact


Extended Aged Care at Home Packages (EACH)

Extended Aged Care at Home Packages provide individually planned and coordinated packages of care for residents with high care needs. An EACH package may include the above CACP care and services and also where required:

  • Technical nursing care
  • Allied health care
  • Continence management aids
  • Assistance with oxygen and/or enteral feeding


Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia Packages
(EACH Dementia)

Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia Packages are designed for clients experiencing difficulties due to the behavioural and psychological symptoms associated with dementia. Packages may include all of the above care and services as well as other services and strategies to meet the specific needs of care recipients.