Short-term care for people who are leaving hospital and need extra help to recover
Silver Chain TCP
Northern Adelaide LHN - Transition Care Programme (TCP)
Central Queensland Transition Care Program
Latrobe Regional Hospital Transition Care Program
Cohuna District Hospital TCP - partner of Bendigo Health TCP
NSW Health Transition Aged Care Illawarra/Shoalhaven LHD Shoalhaven
NSW Health Transition Aged Care Murrumbidgee LHD Albury
NSW Health Transition Aged Care Northern Sydney LHD
NSLHD TACP provides both community and residential flexible care places. TACP provides time limited packages of care and therapy to meet individual needs. This will give the older person who has been assessed as eligible for Transition Care by the ACAT, time to recover and improve at home or in the residential unit.
ACT TTCP
The Transitional Therapy and Care Program (TTCP) is a community based program for older adults, providing up to 12 weeks support and therapy at the end of a hospital stay.
Our service
•Aims to improve the older person’s functional capacity and independence so that they can return home after hospital.
•Is delivered either in a 15 bed residential care facility or in the person’s home.
•Has a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, allied health assistants, social worker, dietitian, speech pathologist, care support staff and case managers.
Eligibility criteria
Requires assessment by the Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) and must be an inpatient of a hospital at time of assessment.