Service summary

Care Finder is a free service that can help vulnerable older people in South Eastern NSW who need extra, intensive support to access aged care services and other supports in the community.

The service can assist with tasks like completing forms and understanding aged care service agreements, talking to My Aged Care, arranging, attending and providing support at an assessment plus finding and short-listing local aged care providers.

Care finders can also assist older people in need to access health, mental health, housing and homelessness, drug and alcohol services and community groups.

COORDINARE has funded organisations in South Eastern NSW to link eligible community members with care finders.

Continuing To Be Me (C2bMe) provides mental and emotional support to people living in Residential Aged Care Homes in Southeastern NSW.

Continuing to be Me (C2bMe) is funded by Coordinare and is a free therapeutic mental health program designed to support eligible people living in Residential Aged Care Homes (RACHs) in Southeastern NSW who are presenting with mild to moderate mental health distress.

C2bMe provides person-centred and evidence-based 1:1 mental health support and group programs for eligible residents who reside in RACHs partnered with the C2bMe program.

C2bMe seeks to holistically support residents’ mental health by offering capacity building and training opportunities to Care Staff to support their understanding of mental health with their residents.

C2bMe is designed to:

• Provide a comprehensive person-centred model of care.
• Reinforce the person’s identity and purpose.
• Increases connectedness and hope.
• Improve the person’s mental health wellbeing.
• Increase the day-to-day functioning of residents in aged care homes.

C2bMe is a free service for people who are:

• Residents of a partnered Aged Care Home, within the Southeastern NSW area
• Aged 65 years or older, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 or over
• Experiencing mild to moderate mental health concerns or at risk of developing mental health concerns
• Consent to receive support
• Able to actively participate in mental health support, this requires them to have the capacity to reflect and retain information.

Not sure if a RACH is partnered with C2bMe?

Contact us or speak to the individual’s RACH to ask about whether the individual you are referring resides in a RACH partnered with C2bMe.

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Find and access government funded aged care services.

Provided by Advance Care Planning Australia the National Advance Care Planning Advisory Service provides free advice and assistance with advance care planning for everyone from consumers to workforce.

Contact the National Advance Care Planning Advisory Service from 8 am to 4 pm (AEST) Monday to Friday on 1300 208 582.

This training program is for Residential Aged Care onsite staff and clinicians working inside aged care homes.

This includes doctors, nurses, specialists, managers, personal care workers and other staff working in residential aged care settings.

Please reach out to COORDINARE’s Digital Health Team for more information about the Residential Aged Care Homes training package or click on the link below to learn more.

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