Extended Aged Care at Home Packages - EACH

Program Name: Extended Aged Care at Home EACH

 

Brief Description of Program:

EACH packages are individually planned and coordinated packages of community aged care services provided to approved care recipients.

EACH differs from the CACP program in that it is specifically targeted at frail older people living in the community who would (if they applied) be eligible for high-level residential aged care. The packages are flexible in content; however, the expectation is that a package would include qualified nursing input, particularly in designing and managing the package and also where there are high-level complex care needs.

To access an EACH package a person must first be assessed as eligible by an ACAT. There are no citizenship or residency restrictions on accessing an EACH package of care. These packages, however, are intended for ongoing not temporary care.

 

Service types available under this program:

 

• Advocacy
• Allied Health * Physiotherapy
• Allied Health * Nursing
• Allied Health * Dietician
• Allied Health * Occupational Therapy
• Case Management
• Housework
• Information and Advice
• Lawn and Garden Maintenance
• Meal Preparation
• Medication Monitoring
• Personal Care
• Respite - In Home
• Shopping - Assisted
• Shopping - Unassisted
• Social Support
• Transportation
• Equipment
• Clinical Care

 

Funded By: Australian Government
Department of Health and Ageing

 

Eligibility Criteria: A person is eligible to receive flexible care in the form of an EACH package if he or she has physical, social or psychological needs which can be appropriately met in the community.
A person is eligible to receive flexible care in the form of an EACH package only if the person:

 

• is assessed as requiring a high level of residential care
• prefers to receive an EACH package at home
• is able to live at home with the support of an EACH.

 

Cost to Clients:
A care recipient can be asked to pay a fee for a community care package. For a care recipient receiving the aged pension, the maximum fee which can be charged is 17.5% of the basic rate of single pension.

 

People on higher incomes may be asked to pay additional fees (limited to 50% of any income above the basic rate of single pension). However, no one will be denied a service they need, based on an inability to pay fees.

 

The maximum fee for community care packages changes each March and September, in line with changes to the pension.

 

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