ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc: Home Assist Programs

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ME/CFS AUSTRALIA (SA) INC

Registered Charity 698

Mailing address:
GPO Box 383,
Adelaide,
South Australia 5001

Office:
266 Port Road,
Hindmarsh,
South Australia 5007
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
('834 MECFS')

Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 10am-3pm

Support Line:
(Mondays and Thursdays,
10am-3pm)
Ph: (08) 8346 3237

SA country callers:
Ph: 1300 128 339
(local call)

FIBROMYALGIA HELP:
Contact
Fibromyalgia SA
at the
Arthritis Foundation of SA
118 Richmond Road,
Marleston 5033
Ph: (08) 8379 5711

ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc supports the needs of sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related illnesses. We do this by providing services and information to members.

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Information and Support 2004 is an online appeal that aims to improve our Information and Support Line.

ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc aims to keep members informed of the various research projects, diets, medications, therapies etc. All communication, both verbal and written, is merely to disseminate information and not to make recommendations or directives.

Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed on this Web site are not necessarily the official views of the Society or its Committee and are not simply an endorsement of products or services.

Home Assist Programs

Local Government Home Assist Programs can be useful for residents. Anyone considered ‘older’ – i.e., people over 50 – have received help, although the frail aged are targeted again. They can provide up to 5 hours cleaning home help, after a hospital stay at a cost of $5.00 per hour. Other Home Assist council services can provide for eligible residents (people who are without support and who cannot afford private services) are handrail installation (consumer meets cost of rail) at similar rates, and also gutter cleaning (own home, not rental, or South Australian Housing Trust, sometimes strata units), as well as small handyman jobs – and plumbing.

Community Buses – some councils will provide a pick at the door for people who have medical conditions and are not able to access public transport- generally for older people but each council may have its own priorities, and it is worth a try. Buses generally go to fixed locations – i.e., shopping centres, libraries etc.

Trade Registers – councils keep lists of tradespeople who have current insurance in Trade Registers. They are available to all residents, and some tradespeople are supposed to give a pensioner discount.