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Aged Care - Benefits

Aged Pension
If you have reached retirement age, Age Pension ensures you have an adequate income in your retirement. You qualify for Age Pension if you are over a certain age; and meet the residence requirements.

Senior's Health Care Card
The Commonwealth Senior Health Card helps senior Australians with the cost of medicines. You will get a discount on prescription medicines though the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Aged Care - Centres

Adult Day Activity Support
Kohinoor is a day activity program which focuses on the individual needs of people and helps maintain and develop their skills by providing group and communal activities outside their home. Kohinoor also provides the chance for carers to take a break.

Ballarat Adult Day Centre
The Ballarat Adult Day Centre Older Persons Program  offers companionship and support to people with an intellectual disability, as well as a program of recreation and leisure that is sensitive to each person's need.

Aged Care - Nursing Homes

Argyle Lodge (Q.E.G.B)
Gillies St, Ballarat, VIC. 3350.
ph: 03) 5339 6980.

Begonia Residental Aged Care Facility
207- 213 Richards St, Ballarat, VIC. 3350.
ph: 03) 5331 5777.

Bill Crawford Lodge
Dana Sth, Ballarat, VIC. 3350.
ph: 03) 5320 3970.

Jack Lonsdale Lodge
Cnr Spencer & Morgan Sts, Sebastopol, VIC. 3356.
ph: 03) 5335 0522.

P.S. Hobson Nursing Home
Gillies St, Ballarat, VIC. 3350.
ph: 03) 5338 1644.

Talbot Place
Dana St, Ballarat, VIC. 3350.
ph: 03) 5320 3755.

Vision Australia Foundation
1300 Howitt St, Wendouree, VIC. 3355.
ph: 03) 5337 4600.

Aged Care - Retirement Homes

Meadow Gardens Retirement Village
18 Cooinda Drv, Delacombe, VIC. 3356.
ph: 03) 5335 1900.

Pineview Retirement Home
324 Nicholson St, Ballarat, VIC. 3350.
ph: 03) 5332 2121.

Rosebank Retirement Village
Charlotte St, Sebastopol, VIC. 3356.
ph: 03) 5335 6111.

Sunways Retirement Homes
418 Wendouree Pde, Wendouree, VIC. 3355.
ph: 03) 5339 1278

Aged Care - Services

Uniting Care:  Do Care
Social Support Program caring for the social well-being of the aged and people with a disability.

Aged Care Assessment
The Grampians Aged Care Assessment Service is committed to the provision of skilled multi-disciplinary assessment services. This will include provision of relevant information, advice and referral, to ensure ease of access to necessary services and supports in order to promote, improve or maintain the physical, mental emotional and/or social wellbeing of older people or people with disabilities in the Grampians region.

Ballarat City Council Home Care Service
City of Ballarat Home Care Services provide in-home support to people of all ages with disabilities and to frail aged people who wish to remain in their own homes but require assistance to maintain their independence. Short-term assistance for families in crisis may also be provided.

Ballarat District Nursing and Healthcare
Ballarat District Nursing and Healthcare's caring and professional nursing staff deliver a wide range of home nursing 24 hours per day 7 days per week, services include: Personal Care Assistance, Medication Assistance, Pain Management, Wound care, Palliative Care, Continence Care, Occupational Therapy Assessments, Diabetes Care, Stomal Care, Other services include: Podiatry, Grampians Healthcare Advisory Service, Ballarat Centre for Home Care, Grampians HACC Education, BDNH Software Development.  BDNH is an approved service provider for Department of Veteran's Affairs clients.
Generous pensioner subsidies apply to all services.

Community Aged Care Package
Southern Cross Care (Vic) recognises that, for many seniors, living in the comfort of their own home is an important part of growing older. Community Aged Care Packages (CACPs) are packages of planned and managed services to help older people with complex care needs to remain living in their own homes. They are designed for each individual and are based on their particular needs. To be eligible to receive a Package, your needs must first be assessed by an Aged Care Assessment Service (ACAS) to determine whether you need the kind of help a package provides.