Respite advice

Qualified nurses can visit clients in their home and make them feel safe and comfortable. They can help with managing wounds, medication, continence and more. They can carry out health assessments and reviews, and help with monitoring blood pressure, oxygen levels and more. Our nurses are a great support for people who are recovering from injury or illness and need some help to get back on their feet.

Finding the right age care service is really important. We created a podcast to help people do just that by providing information and advice from people both delivering and receiving quality age care.

In this episode of Age Old Problems: New Aged Care, we discuss the benefits of residential respite care.

With the help of Lisa Brewer, who works in Admissions and Customer Service at Helping Hand, and Kerry Carlson who is Resident Liaison Coordinator for Helping Hand in North Adelaide, we discover:

• What is residential respite and what are the benefits for carers?
• Who is eligible to use it and how best to start the process.
• Typical reasons why carers may need respite and why not to fear it, it’s a great way to try out residential care!
• That no question is a silly question. Staff are focused on putting you at ease.
• The process of settling in and choosing what activities to participate in.
• How you might even become a ‘frequent flyer’ – respite can be life changing for both carer and recipient.
• And that taking a tour first is highly recommended.

This episode explores residential respite, however we also offer community respite for eligible home care clients in their own homes. Please speak to us on 1300 653 600 if you are interested in finding out more.