Commonwealth Home Support Program
We offer services across different areas to provide all round assistance
- What is the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP)?
The objective of the program is to improve access to quality home support services for eligible clients. It supports frail, older people living in the community to maximise their independence and ensuring a healthy life through the provision of timely, quality entry level support services, which takes into account each person’s individual goals, preferences and choices.
The CHSP will help frail, older people (65 years and over, or 50 years and over for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) who are living in the community to maximise their independence.
UNITED is an official service provider of this program.
- How much it will cost?
The Australian Government provides a subsidy towards your care but all persons must contribute an amount to the cost of their care, this is the "Contribution fee".
At UNITED, this fee is $ 3 per service hour.
- What services UNITED can provide under the CHSP Program?
Areas We Cover
Domestic Assistance- Maintain the Capacity to Manage Every Day Activities
General House Cleaning, Unaccompanied shopping (delivered to home) and linen services.It can include: dishwashing, house cleaning, clothes washing and ironing, shopping (unaccompanied), bill paying (unaccompanied), collection of firewood (in remote areas),help with meal preparation, washing clothes and other household linen or provision and laundering of linen.
Personal Care- Support Daily Activities to Maintain Appropriate Standards of Hygiene and Grooming
The services can include assistance with self-care like eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, grooming, getting in and out of bed, moving about the house, and assistance with client self-administration of medicine (including from dose-administration aids and reporting of failure to take medicines).
Support care for you while your carer takes a break.
In-home day respite.
In-home overnight respite.
Community access–individual respite.
Host family day respite.
Host family overnight respite.
Mobile respite.
