December 2024 - How ADEC aged care managers can help you optimise your Home Care Package service, especially this holiday season
The holiday season is a time for joy, relaxation, and spending quality time with loved ones. For seniors who depend on Home Care Packages (HCPs), this time of year may also bring unique challenges, such as scheduling adjustments or increased demand for certain services. At ADEC, our experienced aged care managers are here to ensure you continue receiving seamless, culturally sensitive care tailored to your needs—even during the busiest season.
Maximise your Home Care Package budget
Our aged care managers are experts in helping you optimise your funding. Whether you require personal care, domestic assistance, or community engagement, our team can help you to create a care plan that matches your priorities. During the holiday season, this process becomes even more important.
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November 2024 - The new Home Care Package reforms in 2024-2025 bring shorter wait times, more funding, and improved support
What you need to know about the coming changes to the aged care sector and Home Care Packages
The Australian government is making significant strides to enhance aged care, and recent updates to Home Care Packages (HCPs) bring exciting changes for older Australians. With faster access, increased support levels, and a focus on quality, these reforms ensure that older Australians can maintain independence and stay engaged in their communities for longer. We’re here to provide multicultural communities with the information and support needed to get the most from your Home Care Package.
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October 2024 - Learn how ADEC's NDIS Plan Management supports multicultural participants, bridging cultural and language gaps to provide culturally competent care
Navigating the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) can be a complex and overwhelming experience for many participants. For individuals from multicultural communities, these challenges are often magnified due to language barriers, cultural differences, and unfamiliarity with the service system. Accessing the right support and understanding how to use NDIS funding effectively becomes even more daunting when cultural needs aren’t fully acknowledged or understood.
At ADEC, we recognise these challenges and work hard to ensure that multicultural participants receive the tailored support they deserve, in a way that respects their cultural backgrounds and unique needs.
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September 2024 - Personalised Aged Care Supports: Tailoring Your Home Care Package with ADEC for a Better Life
When it comes to aged care, there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. Everyone has unique needs shaped by their health, lifestyle, and, often, cultural background. The standardised approach to care often falls short, leaving many individuals feeling overlooked or underserved. That’s why personalised care aimed specifically at each individual’s requirements is gaining importance in today’s agedcare services.
Tailoring your Home Care Package (HCP) ensures that you receive the exact support you need while enhancing your overall quality of life. Personalised care is about creating a care plan that reflects who a person is and what will make them most comfortable in their own home and community.
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August 2024 - A Comprehensive Guide To Choosing The Right Care Coordination Service
Care coordination services are the lifeline that ensures people living with disabilities and their families and primary carers get the support they need, whether at home or out in the community. For people culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, these services are not always easily accessed. Assistance that respects cultural values and overcomes language barriers is crucial.
ADEC has worked in this area for more than 42 years, and we’ve built up plenty of experience with what works.
This month, we’d like to run through some of the most important factors in selecting the right care coordination service.
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July 2024 - A Quick Guide To Change Your Current Home Care Package Provider?
If you're thinking about replacing your current home care package provider, you're not alone. Many individuals and families consider switching providers to find better home health care for seniors that suits their evolving needs.
Selecting the right home care service provider is essential to maintaining a high quality of life, especially if you depend on home care packages for daily support.
In this article, we'll guide you through why you might want to change providers, the benefits of finding the right provider, and how to ensure a smooth transition.
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July 2024 - Disability Advocacy Sector Is In Crisis - Can You Help?
Access to frontline disability advocacy is at risk due to a serious funding shortfall.
ADEC has joined with fourteen other groups across Victoria to urge the Minister for Disability, the Hon. Lizzie Blandthorn, to provide emergency funding for disability advocacy.
The 2024 Victorian Budget maintained funding for disability advocacy services at the level paid in previous years. But with increased demand, inflation and rising delivery costs this level of funding is simply not adequate to meet the real advocacy needs of people with disability and their families in Victoria.
Please join us to consider a call or email to your Victorian MP and support our call for emergency transitional funding to maintain access to frontline advocacy for disabled people in Victoria
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June 2024 - Managed NDIS Plan vs Self-Managed: Which One Is Best For You?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia provides funding to people living with disabilities to pay for much-needed disability support services.
Established in 2013, the NDIS aims to give people living with disability greater choice and control over their lives by funding support services that are tailored to their individual needs.
Participants receive funding based on their individual needs and goals, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. This funding is used to purchase supports and services that help participants achieve their objectives and improve their quality of life.
ADEC is one of the leading NDIS plan management providers in Victoria. Established in 1982 as a not-for-profit organisation, ADEC is committed to providing equal access to high-quality disability and aged care services for all people in our most vulnerable communities
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June 2024 - Youssef's Story: Finding Joy and Support with ADEC's Disability Services in His New Homeland
Youssef Farag is a joyful 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who loves visiting parks, playing with his ADEC support workers, listening to music, and dancing. “Youssef loves the guitar too much,” his mum Dalia laughs. “He is always singing and dancing.”
But life wasn’t always so happy for Youssef. He was born in Egypt and was not as openly accepted as he has been in Australia. “My country is different to Australia,” says Dalia. “Youssef could not go to school and we could not go outside because he was scared of abuse from people.”
About five years ago, Dalia’s NDIS Plan Manager recommended ADEC, and mother and son couldn’t be happier with the support they’ve received.
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May 2024 - What Types of Disability Support Services Are Covered By The NDIS?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides funding to help people living with disabilities access essential support and services they need to live more independently and participate fully in their communities.
ADEC provides NDIS-funded disability support services in Melbourne. We have been serving the community as one of the most trusted not-for-profit disability support providers in Melbourne for more than 42 years.
We are specialists in supporting ethnic communities, and we speak your language. Our diverse support worker group speaks 27 languages – including Hindi, English, Somalian, Korean, Turkish and many more – and we can arrange interpreters free of charge.
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April 2024 - Navigating NDIS Plan Managers: A Guide to Choosing the Best Fit for Your Needs
Managing your own NDIS plan can be a challenge. You have to navigate a complex landscape of NDIS service providers, carefully manage your budget, make sure you’re paying service providers on time, and keep accurate financial records in case you’re audited.
At the same time, you need to understand complicated NDIS policies and procedures to make sure you stay compliant, and create a personalised care plan that fulfils all your needs.
Thankfully, ADEC takes much of the stress out of managing your NDIS plan with our comprehensive NDIS plan management services.
We provide expert NDIS plan management in Melbourne, and our team of dedicated NDIS plan managers can relieve the admin burden on you and provide the guidance you need to get the most out of your NDIS budget.
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March 2024 - Home Care Packages Explained: Everything you need to know
Imagine aged care that listens to you. That’s precisely what ADEC’s Home Care Packages offer.
We’ll work hard to understand your personal needs, language preferences, cultural background, and the dynamics of your living and family environment so we can deliver in-home aged care support services that are personalised to your needs.
That’s why our Home Care Packages are more than just a service. They are a commitment to enriching your life, preserving your independence, and providing you with a personalised support system that evolves with your unique needs.
We also want to make it as easy as possible for you to understand if you’re eligible for a Home Care Package, how government funding works, what in-home aged care services you can get with ADEC, and how to sign up for a Home Care Package.
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February 2024 - Alf's Story: The Rocky Road to Success
For 76-year-old Egyptian-born Alf, success hasn’t come easy. He overcame several setbacks to build his own successful transport company. Now retired, Alf and his wife Anne Marie are facing some health challenges. But they’ve found the critical support they need with ADEC.
Alf’s transport company went from strength to strength, and he eventually decided to retire from the flourishing business. A devoted family man, Alf joined his wife in taking care of their six-month-old grandson. They lovingly cared for him for almost a decade, before experiencing some health issues of their own.
“Samantha is our Aged Care Case Manager, and her empathy, support and assistance is beyond what we ever expected,” Alf says. “If we need assistance, we know it’s there. I would recommend ADEC without a doubt.”
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January 2024 - NDIS Made Simple: Stress-free NDIS Plan Management with ADEC
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is designed to provide critical support and funding for people living with disabilities. But managing your NDIS funding comes with several challenges.
You may also need to coordinate services from different NDIS providers, and ensure they work together effectively. Dealing with the NDIS online portal can be another headache if you’re not exactly tech savvy.
Here’s the good news: ADEC can help solve these problems for you. Our NDIS Plan Management Services take the burden off you, simplify your NDIS journey, and empower you to make the best decisions for your support needs.
And best of all, our Plan Management Services are built into your NDIS Plan at no cost to you.
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December 2023 - Holiday Tips
Update ADEC's festive season contact information.
The Christmas and New Year season, a time of joy, celebration and togetherness is upon us, and while it is a happy time to be celebrated with family and friends, for people with disability, elders and their carers, the holiday season may bring some challenges.
Tips for fully enjoying the holiday season for individuals with Disabilities, Seniors and Carers and answers for frequently asked questions about planning holidays for NDIS participants.
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December 2023 - Zena's Story - Finding great support with ADEC
Zena has a full and happy life. ADEC disability support workers visit her at home twice a day. She also attends Carlton North Learning Centre twice a week, travels to physio sessions by taxi, and enjoys family trips to church every Sunday.
Zena needs help going to the bathroom, showering, grooming, and getting into bed. Moses explains that her ADEC support workers also help Zena with light exercise and gentle massages and provide valuable companionship.
Zena particularly likes it when her support workers play music for her while she showers. “I feel good,” she says. “They talk nicely to me and make me happy. My life would be much harder without them.”
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November 2023 - Shaima's Story - Celebrating 20 years of dedication
Shaima Shabaz is one of ADEC’s most beloved Social Support Group Facilitators. After 20 years of incredible service, she has retired from her role. While Shaima was sad to leave the colleagues and clients she loves, she says she feels lucky to have found a home at ADEC.
“I love all my colleagues and clients so much. They have become a second family to me,” she says. “I have had no bad days at ADEC. Every day has been a good day. I was always excited to go into the office.”
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October 2023 - Chi Lam's story - ADEC's Social Support Groups client for over 26 years
When Chi Lam arrived in Australia from Vietnam, she cried every day. She came in search of a better life for her autistic son, but support was very difficult to find. A new culture and communication barriers also created feelings of social isolation.
“I was homesick and depressed,” she says. “I found it difficult to understand the Australian accent, we didn’t have money, and we had no friends here to help us. We also had no transport, and the cultural differences made it difficult to find a job.”
That was 26 years ago. But Chi’s life began to change when she was introduced to ADEC by another parent at her son’s school.
September 2023 - Effie's story - Meet ADEC's Disability Ambassador
Effie Meehan’s joy for life is obvious from the moment you meet her. Today, she’s an ADEC Disability Ambassador, the proud mother of two, and a delighted grandmother of four. Effie was inducted into the lifetime achievement honour roll in the Victorian Disability Awards in 2022 in recognition of her significant contribution and outstanding commitment to the rights, participation and inclusion of Victorians with disability.
But Effie’s journey hasn’t been easy. She was born with Cerebral Palsy, and moved to Australia from Greece with her family. She found herself living in a different culture, and unable to speak English. Then she met and fell in love with an Irish man who also lived with a disability.
“We were married in 1971, so things were very different then,” Effie says. “There was no support for people living with disability in those days, and our mothers were not supportive of the marriage at first, so it was very hard.”
August 2023 - About Aged Care Services
Navigating the aged care landscape can be quite challenging. In our latest blog article, we reach out to anyone and everyone in our community who may feel confused or apprehensive about in-home aged care.
ADEC’s Home Care Packages are helping people stay in their homes with a range of personalised aged care services and support. Understanding and navigating the challenges of aged care can be overwhelming. You might feel unseen and unheard as you try to seek the support you need to stay in your home as you age.
ADEC's Aged Care service is here to change that. Our easy-to-understand Home Care Packages are a reliable one-stop shop for all the personalised in-home aged care and support you need, when you need it.
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