What is Care Finder?
Care finder is a free service that helps older people to:
- Set up aged care services;
- Change aged care services; and,
- Connect with other supports like housing, health or mental health.
What regions are covered by the Gateway Health Care Finder program?
The city of Albury and North East Victoria. This includes the shires of Alpine, Benalla, Indigo, Towong, Wangaratta and Wodonga.
How Care Finders can help. We can come to you!
- Care finders can sit alongside you, logging onto the computer and making phone calls with you, or on your behalf.
- Phone or visit My Aged Care and arrange an assessment.
- Attend and provide support at the assessment.
- Find and short-list aged care providers in your area.
Complete forms and understand aged care service agreements. - Check in once services are up and running to make sure everything is okay.
- Help arrange reassessments where needed.
- Solve other challenges and connect you to supports in the community, such as health, mental health, housing and homelessness, Carer Gateway, drug and alcohol services and community groups.
How to reach us
Phone 1800 657 573 or email carefinder@gatewayhealth.org.au