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This service coordinates and manages your transition care.
Transition care is short-term support to help you recover and regain independence for after a hospital stay, helping to reduce the need for longer term support. Your care is tailored to your needs and goals and can include allied health services, nursing, and personal care.
This service includes:
- care and medication management
- clinical and therapy services
- assistance to access medical practitioners
- emergency or after-hours assistance, when needed
- help with personal affairs and social support
- continence management
- waste disposal.
This service does not include:
- ongoing care management beyond the period of transition care.
How it could help
- Help maintaining your personal affairs while you recover
- Managing your medication
- Providing transport to a medical appointment or help to arrange a home visit
- Providing emergency care when needed (home or community setting only)
- Support attending social, cultural, and religious events (home or community setting only)
- Managing bowel and bladder problems
- Safe disposal of organic and inorganic waste material
How can I access this service?
This service can be provided through the Transition Care Program. Your aged care assessor determines your eligibility to access this program and this service.
How this service is helping others
How transition care helped Omar recover after a hospital stay
Omar had a fall and needed surgery. Knowing that he would have limited mobility once he was back home, a social worker referred Omar to My Aged Care while at hospital.
How transition care helped Des to get back on his feet after a hospital stay
When Des fell over, broke his leg and needed surgery, he was told he would be out of action for a few months. Needing support after he left hospital, the staff recommended My Aged Care.
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How do I get assessed for services?
An aged care assessment determines whether you are approved to access services. Using our online tool, you can check if you meet the requirements for an assessment before you apply for one.