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 What is Community Options?
Community Options is a client oriented service which aims to provide flexible responses to your needs. This is achieved by co-ordination and case management across service boundaries to provide support, encouragement, monitoring and advocacy as required.
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Last Updated 09 November 2006 |
You may receive some
assistance already but are finding it difficult to manage. You may be
thinking about moving into a hostel or nursing home simply because you can
no longer cope with everyday tasks. Your carer may be finding it difficult
to care for you at home. Great Lakes Community Options Project can help
you to stay living at home. Older people who are frail, people with
disabilities and carers are eligible for Community Options assistance if
they are having difficulty coping at home and need additional services and
support to continue living at home.
Great Lakes Community Options
Project is under the auspices of Great Lakes Council and receives funding from the
Commonwealth and State Governments through the Home and Community Care (HACC)
Program. The project has been in operation since August 1990. There are
three part time staff members:
40 clients receive varying assistance from Great Lakes Community Options
Project, depending on their needs. Clients range in age from 0-95 years old.
Some of the ways Great Lakes Community Options Project has assisted clients to
stay living in their own home include:
Our contact details are:
