Services
UCH operates a range of accommodation and care services at facilities and retirement villages throughout WA as well as a range of services for people who continue to live in their own home in the community or a retirement village.
For full information about the nature of these services open and read or print the ‘Introduction to UCH’ brochure.
Services include:
1. Low Care in a Residential Aged Care Facility (Hostel)
2. High Care in a Residential Aged Care Facility (Nursing Home)
3. Residential Dementia Care (high or low care)
4. Extra Service Residential Care
5. Residential Respite Care
6. Serviced Units
7. Independent Living Units
8. Community Aged Care Packages (CACP)
9. Extended Aged Care at Homes (EACH)
10. Extended aged Care at Home – Dementia (EACH – D)
11. Home and Community Care (HACC)
12. Day Activity/Day Therapy Services
1. Low Care in a Residential Aged Care Facility (Hostel)Services include accommodation and related services, like cleaning, meals and basic furnishing (most residents bring their own bed and small items of furniture to personalise their rooms), assistance with the activities of daily living, like showering and dressing, help with their medications and other supports.
2. High Care in a Residential Aged Care Facility (Nursing Home)
Services include accommodation and related services, like cleaning, meals and furnishing, including specialised furniture and equipment (eg to assist with mobility), (residents are allowed to bring small items to personalise their rooms), assistance with the activities of daily living, like showering and dressing, help with their medications, nursing care and therapy services.
3. Residential Dementia Care (high or low care)
Residential Dementia Care can take place in either high or low care facilities and includes the standard accommodation and care services according to the level of care. In addition staff receive additional training and run special programs and routines for residents, and facilities usually have a ‘secure’ wing so that people with a tendency to wander cannot leave the facility and put themselves into danger.
4. Extra Service Residential Care
Extra Service Residential Care Facilities provide the standard accommodation and care services as mainstream facilities but are approved to provide a higher standard of accommodation or services, for which residents pay more than they otherwise would pay according to their financial assessment. These extra fees cannot be used to provide more of the specified care and services which are provided to all residents according to their need.
5. Residential Respite Care
Respite Care is short term support aimed primarily to assist carers to continue their caring role. Most UCH Residential Care Facilities have one accommodation unit allocated to respite care and residents receive the standard accommodation services and high and/or low care services according to their assessment.
UCH devised and operates a Serviced Unit program for people who require a small amount of support to maintain their independence.
The accommodation is basically the same an Independent Living Unit and includes a call button so that residents can call for help in emergencies.
Services provided include all meals, medication management and heavy laundry. In addition, for those with slightly greater need, UCH can include personal laundry, bed making and cleaning of the unit.
Access to this service is based on an assessed need.
7. Independent Living Units
UCH offers a choice of self contained units in a village atmosphere which are available to people primarily aged 55 years or over. Units range from small bed sitter units to larger one, two and three bedroom units. Many of the villages have common facilities and community rooms on site and call buttons so that residents can call for help in emergencies.
Each village has a different range of services but the benefits of living in one of our Independent Living Units can include companionship and sense of community and security, an independent lifestyle, outings and social activities (usually organised by the residents themselves) which include regular bus trips to shopping centres, the theatre and restaurants etc.
8. Community Aged Care Packages (CACP)
CACPs provide a planned and managed package of community care for people with complex care needs who would like to remain living in their own home.
Services can include help with personal care such as bathing and dressing, domestic assistance such as housework and shopping, help participating in social activities, help with meal preparation or laundry or assistance with continence management.
9. Extended Aged Care at Homes (EACH)
The EACH program provides services to meet high care needs through an individually tailored package to assist people to remain living in their own home for as long as possible.
An EACH package is highly flexible and includes qualified nursing input. The services that may be provided as part of an EACH package include care by an allied health professional such as a physiotherapist or podiatrist, personal care, home help, and assistance with continence management.
10. Extended aged Care at Home – Dementia (EACH – D)
The EACH-D program is suitable if someone needs assistance because of behavioural problems associated with dementia, including periods of changes in behaviour such as agitation or other disturbances. The EACH-D program can include all the supports provided under an EACH Program but in addition may provide linkages to government funded Dementia Behaviour Management Centres.
11. Home and Community Care (HACC)
HACC services are for frail aged people or people with a disability who need small amounts of support or assistance (such as domestic assistance, social support ) or respite for the carers of such people, in order to be able to continue living at home. Access is subject to an eligibility assessment, usually done by the service provider.
12. Day Activity/Day Therapy Services
Day Therapy Centre services are provided for older Australians who are frail and living in the community, or people in Low Care Residential Facilities. These centres provide a wide range of therapy services such as physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy, podiatry, and other therapies.
The aim of the program is to assist people to either maintain or recover a level of functionality that enhances their quality of life whether they remain living independently in the community or in low level residential care. Services sometimes have the effect of providing respite for carers, but this is not a specific goal and clients must qualify in their own right as needing the therapy or social supports provided in the program.