Support for sensory impairment, dementia and continence issues
City of Marion - Positive Ageing & Inclusion - Sturt
Counselling, Support, Information and Advocacy - Care Recipient (CSIA), this activity is private and confidential, we work with you to promote and support your right to be treated fairly and be provided with the most appropriate service to meet your needs. We can be the person to stand beside you, speak on your behalf, advocate for your rights, ensure your voice is heard and your dignity upheld. We provide you with:
• Preventative and early intervention
• Advocacy
• Counselling, financial and emotional support
• Source specific information, education and training
• Provide culturally appropriate specific information and resources
• Assist with appropriate referral to other local services to meet your need
Synapse Australia's Brain Injury Organisation
Gunnedah Community Health Service - Social Work
Vision Australia Orange
Vision Australia provides a full range of services and supports to people who are blind or have low vision. Our services support you with techniques for reading including use of computers; advice and training to remain independent in the home and with personal care, and training on strategies to help move about safely and accessing public transport and more; and services to help you connect with others. Teleservices are available to deliver services in remote areas or where the client prefers this option
Southern Region
Guide Dogs NSW/ACT - Far North Coast
Anglicare Southern Queensland Gold Coast
For over 150 years, Anglicare Southern Queensland has been proud to provide the support you need to live the life you want.
Our specialised programs offer you a diverse range of in-home health and wellbeing services. They include:
Customer advocacy
This is an area of health care where we play the role of advocate to ensure your mental and physical wellbeing is managed to suit your needs.
Continence advisory services
Providing information, training and education about bladder and bowel health issues, our services can assist with:
- Incontinence (assessment and management plan)
- Advice on continence products
- Urinary dysfunction
- Catheter care education
Dementia advisory services
This service is for anyone who has been diagnosed with dementia or who works with people with dementia. Support includes:
- Information, education and support
- Linking customers to assessment and support services
- Information about services in your area
- Emotional support
Parkinson's SA
Parkinson's SA provides specialised support, information and education to people with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders and their family carers. Social Workers provide one on one counselling and support by phone or face to face and can inform people of and refer people to other community programs. These include Parkinson's SA seminars and specialised educational sessions which aim to encourage self management and independence. Support Groups in metropolitan and country areas provide a mutual aid model of care that gives people the chance to come together with others in the same situation, usually once a month. The organisation is client centred will advocate for people on an individual and systemic level.
Vision Australia Parramatta
Vision Australia provides a full range of services and supports to people who are blind or have low vision. Our services support you with techniques for reading including use of computers; advice and training to remain independent in the home and with personal care, and training on strategies to help move about safely and accessing public transport and more; and services to help you connect with others.
Vision Australia Warragul
Vision Australia provides a full range of services and supports to people who are blind or have low vision. Our services support you with techniques for reading including use of computers; advice and training to remain independent in the home and with personal care, and training on strategies to help move about safely and accessing public transport and more; and services to help you connect with others.