Help with keeping your home and garden safe
People Who Care South West
Gardening maintenance so you feel safe in your home and garden. We assist with tasks such as lawnmowing, trimming, general tidy up and pruning to maintain your safety, access and wellbeing.
This may include minor home maintenance and repairs that mitigate or remove identified risks to a client’s health and safety.
Amana Living CHSP - East Metro
DHHS - Southern Region
Scope Home Access - Illawarra
Home maintenance such as repair of internal flooring and external access pathways to address slip and trip hazards, minor plumbing, electrical & carpentry repairs where client safety is an issue
Yard maintenance – pruning, yard clearance or lawn mowing where there are issues for client safety and access* low maintenance garden redesign to support wellness and reablement goals
* The provision and frequency of on-going home maintenance services (lawn mowing and garden pruning) must directly relate to assessed client need in terms of maintaining accessibility, safety, independence or health and wellbeing and be subject to regular review. These are basic services primarily for function and safety rather than for aesthetic effect.
Casey City Council
The Home Maintenance & Modification is a service that provides a range of practical ‘handyman’ type tasks that do not require the skills of a qualified trades - person.
It is not an emergency service.
For information regarding current fees please visit www.casey.vic.gov.au/fees-aged-disability-care
Mowing Team
Availability of volunteers determines how often we can get around to homes
Z Old Murray Bridge SA
Z Old ACH Group Home Support - Metro West SA
Southern Cross Care (City of Mitcham) - Contact SCC directly
**AT FULL SERVICE CAPACITY UNTIL JULY 2022** We are unable to take on any new clients or services. Please contact COTA 08 8232 0422 if you have any concerns or are unable to source another provider.
Southern Cross Care coordinate and provide home and garden maintenance services on behalf of the City of Mitcham. Basic maintenance essential to safety and wellbeing in and around the home, garden, and yard. Assistance includes, safety gardening, minor home maintenance, small plumbing jobs, changing light globes, installing battery operated smoke detectors and changing batteries, installing key safes, gutter cleaning – mainly single storey dwellings and rubbish and green waste removal. Approved Contractors may be engaged for working at heights gutter cleaning within the bushfire zone and bushfire clearance within 20m of the home.