Home care for you

Everyday personal care is essential to independent living at home. Our team can provide dignified support for your personal care.

This includes:

• bathing or showering
• personal hygiene and grooming
• dressing
• assistance with mobility.

A clean well-maintained home can provide an overall sense of comfort and security. We can help you with all aspects of everyday food shopping, meal preparation, cleaning, laundry, small home maintenance and gardening.

Shopping and cooking

If you need help with shopping or cooking, our carers can provide transport to shops, carry your shopping bags, put away your groceries or do your shopping for you. There’s also assistance, as much or as little as you need, with meal preparation, help using eating utensils and feeding if necessary.

Cleaning

A tidy, clean, well-maintained home provides a sense of comfort and security. We can arrange cleaners to regularly clean your home or tackle those one-off bigger tasks.

If you're not able to tend to your garden like you used to, we can arrange regular professional help to ensure your garden is managed.

Home maintenance and modifications

We can also find professional support to assist with light home maintenance such as window cleaning, replacing tap washers or installing smoke alarm. Home modifications can include removal of trip hazards and accessibility improvements.

Accomplishing everyday “life admin” activities, alongside pursuing and participating in recreation and social events, is essential to maintaining your independence and keeps you feeling connected. Let Vision Australia help you in the home and out in the community.

At home, your carer can assist with:

• reading and cataloguing incoming mail and bills
• escorting or providing transport to appointments or errands
• assisting with shopping
• helping you attend social activities
• offering companionship.

We can support you - or a group of up to four people - to access a range of activities, such as:

• entertainment: live shows, movies, exhibitions, and galleries
• health: exercise classes
• recreational interests: art and craft classes, talks and lectures.

Vision Australia also offers a range of social and recreational groups for people who have similar lived experience.

Vision Australia provides both personal care and social support to allow a family member or care worker a rest and recharge. Light domestic duties or meal preparation can be included.

• Overnight care: Our team member can stay overnight in your home to provide aid, company and security.
• 24-hour in-home care: We can provide around-the-clock personal and domestic assistance in the home.

With our specialised vision loss services and supports, Vision Australia helps thousands of people to live the life they choose. Our vision loss specialists can help you to understand your vision, alongside assisting you to build practical strategies at home or in the community to get around safely. There is also emotional support if you are adjusting to vision loss, together with a range of social and recreational groups with similar lived experience. Allied health professionals, such as nurses and physiotherapists, are available to support your health and wellbeing.

Technology and assistive aids

Vision Australia knows that technology can be life-changing for people who are blind or have low vision in living a full and independent life. With one of our Home Care Packages, you will have access to a full range of assistive and mainstream technology. This can include specialised assistive tech and gadgets, such as magnifiers and talking microwaves, or more mainstream technology, like voice-activated personal assistants and smart phone apps. There’s also a wealth of resources, both simple and advanced, to get you up and running or reacquainted with technology.