Allied Health and Home Maintenance

Podiatry

Keeping your feet in good health, so as to keep you mobile, is very important. We offer highly experienced podiatrists to help you with this. Where required, our podiatrists can access our GPs and medical specialists readily, working as a team. Our podiatrists can help with:

Physiotherapy

Physiotherapists can help you recover from a range of conditions that may have affected your musculoskeletal system. Importantly they can teach and help you perform the correct exercises. Physiotherapists can also help you maintain your balance and therefore avoid falls. Here is a more complete list of how a physiotherapist can help you:

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapists can help you find ways to perform everyday tasks around the house. More specifically, the services that occupational therapists provide are:

Seating assessments and prescriptions, including helping you select a wheelchair if required
Home modifications aimed at making it easier for you to get around your house and minimising the risk of you having a fall
Identifying products that can help you increase your independence and ability to perform common tasks such as opening a jar or picking things up from the floor
Falls prevention. Working as a team, this is a really important area. Occupational therapists can help with non slip products and correct lighting, for example
Manual handling. Occupational therapists can help you find strategies to best lift and carry things at home.

Audiology

Mark & Sylvie’s Home Care is fortunate to have access to our in-house audiologist who can help fit and fix hearing aids as well as help with a range of other hearing issues. Michelle Esparon can help with:

Note that Michelle’s services are often provided free of charge via the Government hearing program, therefore saving your home care package funds. This is another way in which the wide practitioner network of Atticus Health, our parent company, can help you.

Home maintenance

Mark and Sylvie’s Home care can provide simple home maintenance, such as gutter, window and solar panel cleaning, yard cleaning etc. We can do odd jobs around the house, such as checking smoke alarms. It’s important to note that government funding can not be used in any way to improve the capital value of your home, but small jobs to improve safety are permitted.

Personal Care & Companionship

Our carers can help you prepare and cook meals, or arrange for them to be delivered from a provider like Lite n’ Easy. Your Home Care Plan can cover the cost of preparing and transporting meals.

Domestic Assistance & Transportation

We very much value helping an individual stay connected. We can help you with transportation, attend social outing, family gatherings, recreational and volunteer activities.

Nursing

Our enrolled and registered nurses can assist you with your medical needs. This might include providing wound dressings, dispensing medications and administering injections.

Allied Health & Home Maintenance

We have gardeners who can mow your lawns and tidy up your garden. For larger scale jobs involving big trees, we can engage our trusted contractors.

Dementia Support

Dementia is a progressive condition that affects memory, cognitive function, and daily activities. It can be overwhelming for both individuals diagnosed with dementia and their families. Knowledge and understanding are crucial in navigating this journey.

Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring

There are many ways that technology can assist and improve care at home. Many of these are now rapidly advancing. Finding which technological aid is best suited for you, and indeed, when and how to use them, can be tricky.