OVER the past nine years I have been so privileged to care for my glorious mother at home, she is a war widow, now aged 88 years old.
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She has for the past 36 years assisted in raising over $1 million for our local hospital.
Sadly she now has short term memory loss and needs consistency of routine and care provision.
We were able to access from our local Bendigo council one and a half hours house cleaning, and two hours respite (this allowed me to do our food shopping etc.), then the council withdrew these services from DVA recipients.
My mother adored her service provider, was so happy and familiar with her.
So Care Beyond Measure picked up the service provision, a wonderful, energetic, happy person who my mother really identified with, she had such fun with this lady, I was able to go and shop having complete confidence in the person providing the respite care. And now she is gone.
So now we come to another service provider, who will now do another assessment, and require my mother to adjust to and accept another service provider for how long?
Does it come to me just saying no more service provision and I do it all, which I would absolutely do for this glorious lady?
Or is the government aiming for us to put these wonderful people into care, which would cost the people of Australia so much more, and which I will never, ever do for this wonderful woman.
In home care is so, so much cheaper than supported accommodation, we just need consistency of service.
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