Meet your Home Care Nurse Consultant
Samantha Denman
Samantha is a Nurse Consultant based in Melbourne. She has been with the company since September 2021 and is dedicated to ensuring the highest standards of clinical care. Samantha is the go-to person for issues related to risk and clinical governance, clinical guidelines and policies, incident reports and follow-ups (including SIRS), nurse reviews of Care Plans, and advice on how to manage clinical-related issues.
Samantha worked in acute care for over 20 years as a registered nurse and midwife, until 6 years ago when she studied Diabetes Education and has since focused on chronic disease management in the aged care home care sector. Her qualifications and experience make her an expert in her field, and she is passionate about providing the best possible care to her clients.
In her free time, Samantha enjoys making artisan jewellery, playing piano, trail riding (horses), walking the dog, and spending time with her family.
Home Care Packages
ACAT assessment is an eligibility requirement to access Commonwealth funded residential aged care, residential respite care, transition care and home care packages.
ACAT undertakes a comprehensive assessment of care needs for older people needing access to residential and/or home (community) care, and helps the elderly and their carers to determine what kind of support will best meet their needs.
Target group are older people, typically over the age of 65 or for indigenous Australians, people over the age of 50, or people who have an age related condition.
Often comprises of a doctor, nurse, social worker and occupational therapist, the team will recommend services deemed to be the most appropriate to meet care needs through a series of questions, and with the client’s consent will liaise with families/carers and health care providers.
Referral Procedure, by care recipient themselves or others:
- The care recipient, carer, family must be aware of and consent to the referral
- All referrals are to be made via MyAgedCare: 1800 200 422
Get help managing your home care funds
We offer lowest management fees in Australia, ensuring you get maximum care hours
We make the home care experience inexpensive & easy. Here's how:
Your Local Guardians Home Care Advisor will:
Be your dedicated Home Care Contact
Who understands your needs and will make sure you’re getting the most from your package.
Manage Your
Home Care Plan
Using world class technology for seamless plan management, on any device.
Connect
You
To suitable providers (we have a database of thousands).
Budget
Effectively
To ensure you get maximum possible care hours from your funding.
Home Care Package Management FAQ's
Getting started is easy, once you’ve been approved for a home care package contact us and we’ll send you our simple, easy to read 4 page agreement. Once this has been completed and returned we’ll process it (generally within 1 business day) and be in touch regarding next steps.
Yes! Switching is easy.
- you’ll need to agree on an exit date with your existing provider, this might depend on your home care agreement, ie two weeks
- provide the date to Local Guardians and the contact details of your existing provider to ensure home care package unspent funds can be transferred across
We offer some of the lowest management fees in Australia which means you pay less in fees and get more care hours. See our pricing page for our fees.
Want to know more or sign up for Home Care Package Management?
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