| Adelaide Aged
Care Assessment Team (AACAT)
The Adelaide Aged Care Assessment Team (AACAT) was established
in July 2004 to provide assessment, information and advice
to older people in who are finding it difficult to manage
at home.
The AACAT is the South Australian auspice of the Aged Care
Assessment Program, a program existing throughout Australia
and funded by the Commonwealth Government.
An Aged Care Assessment is required:
- if someone is thinking of applying for community packages
of care funded by the Commonwealth (e.g. Community Aged
Care Packages (CACPs) or Extended Aged Care at Home Packages
(EACHPs),
- to arrange respite care in a residential aged care facility,
or
- to move permanently to a residential aged care facility.
Referrals to AACAT will be accepted from any person with a legitimate
interest in the older person, with consent from the older person.
Adelaide Aged Care Assessment Team
Referrals & Enquiries
Ph: (08) 8193 1203
Fax: (08) 8193 1201
Further information about the Adelaide Aged Care Assessment
Program can be found on the Australian Government’s
Department
of Health and Ageing website.
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