The Right Care and Support at Home
Right at Home Right Care is a top quality, approved, Support at Home provider supporting your health, wellbeing and independence to remain in your community and to age safely at home close to friends, neighbours and your loved ones.
The Support at Home Program, starting on 1st November 2025, provides government funding to eligible older Australians over 65, so you can access support services locally. With Right at Home’s support, you can keep the same daily routines and maintain your independence, receiving the care you need to age well in your own home. We provide the best home care delivered by our screened, trained, insured and supervised carers who provide genuine companionship while delivering a wide range of services with expertise, kindness and respect. Through our personalised care planning involving you and your family, we plan and deliver support that suits your goals, including your health, social and wellness needs.
With 5000+ satisfied government-funded and private clients, Right at Home is synonymous with quality. Our 55+ local, family-owned offices throughout Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and the ACT are contactable 24/7. Our local owners and their management will organise the delivery of person-centred care, ensuring your needs are their priority.
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Our Support at Home Services
Support at Home Ongoing Services
Everyday Living
Everyday Living Support covers help with tasks that keep your home safe and support your lifestyle.
Independence
Independence Support focuses on helping you with daily activities that maintain your ability to live safely and independently at home.
Clinical Services
Clinical Support includes services provided by qualified health professionals to support your health at home.
Support at Home Additional Short Term Funded Services
We also provide support under 3 Support at Home short-term classifications with separate funding, 2 of which have funding for up to 12 weeks, including:
- Restorative Care Pathway to build or regain functions to remain independent (e.g., allied health services) for 12 weeks.
- End-of-life pathway to boost services for people diagnosed with 3 months or less to live to enable them to remain at home, surrounded by those they love and to end their life with dignity and support.
- Assistive Technology and Home Modifications (AT-HM) Scheme funded separately to ongoing participant budgets and provides access to items used to assist a person to remain safely at home and live a fuller life such as mobility scooters, canes, wheelie walkers etc. Right at Home assists with access to the scheme and with organising and managing items from the scheme including home modifications.
With our ability to deliver these wide range of services Right at Home is the Right Choice for Support at Home.
Support at Home Services FAQ’s
What types of services are funded under the support at Home Program?
Support at Home services are grouped into three main ongoing service categories to make it easier to understand what kind of help is available. These categories are:
- Clinical Care
- Independence Support
- Everyday Living Support
Each category includes different types of services which are accessed based on your needs. Your Right at Home care management staff will help you build a plan that combines services from one or more of these categories.
In addition, there will be 3 short-term service classifications with separate funding, 2 of which have services and funding for up to 12 weeks, including:
- Restorative Care Pathway to build or regain functions to remain independent (e.g., allied health services) for 12 weeks.
- End-of-Life Pathway to boost services for people diagnosed with 3 months or less to live to enable them to remain at home for 12 weeks.
- Assistive Technology and Home Modifications (AT-HM) Scheme funded separately to ongoing participant budgets – capped at $15000
What is Clinical Care under Support at Home?
Clinical Care includes services provided by qualified health professionals to support your health at home. This may include:
- Nursing (e.g. assessing, treating and monitoring clinical conditions, administration of medications, wound care, continence management (clinical) and management of skin integrity, education and specialist service linkage).
- Allied health services (e.g. physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietitian, podiatry)
- Nutrition (Prescribed supplementary dietary products (enteral and oral) and aids required for conditions related to functional decline or impairment).
- Care Management – activities that ensure aged care services contribute to the overall wellbeing of an older person (e.g., care planning; service coordination; monitoring, review and evaluation; advocacy; and support and education).
- Restorative care management – provide specialist coordination services for older people undergoing the time-limited Restorative Care Pathway
What is independence Support?
Independence Support focuses on helping you with daily activities that maintain your ability to live safely and independently at home. This may include:
- Personal care (e.g. showering, dressing, grooming. help with mobility or transferring, non-clinical continence support.
- Respite care (a respite care worker visits your home to look after your loved one while you (the family caregiver) gets time to rest and recover)
- Social support and community engagement (group social support, individual social support, accompanied activities such as theatre, lunch, coffee, cultural support such as going to church or other places of worship or to cultural gatherings, digital education and support, assistance to maintain personal affairs and expenses to maintain personal affairs, and support to attend appointments)
- Therapeutic services for independent living such as Acupuncturist and Chiropractor
- Transport (direct transport (driver and car provided) or indirect transport (taxi or rideshare service vouchers))
- Assistive technology and home modifications
- Assistive technology is any item, piece of equipment or product that is used to help you do things more easily or complete activities you can no longer do independently such as:
- mobility equipment such as walking sticks, walking frames and wheelchairs
- toileting supports including bedpans and commodes
- bathing devices including shower chairs and bath boards
- alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) products
- products for food preparation and eating including adaptive cutting boards and knives, as well as modified cutlery.
- Home modifications provide changes to your home, consistent with your aged care assessment, to create a home environment that is safer and more accessible, so you can remain living safely at home such as:
- appropriate lever tap sets or lever door handles
- grab rails in the shower or bathroom
- internal and external handrails
- modified door locks
- non-slip materials and mats for floors and stairs.
- Assistive technology is any item, piece of equipment or product that is used to help you do things more easily or complete activities you can no longer do independently such as:
What is Everyday Living Support?
Everyday Living Support covers help with tasks that keep your home safe and support your lifestyle. This may include:
- Domestic assistance (such as general house cleaning, laundry services, and shopping assistance.)
- Home maintenance and repairs (such as gardening or lawn mowing and assistance with or expenses for home maintenance and repairs)
- Meals (delivery and preparation)
What Types of things are not covered under the support at Home Program?
While Support at Home covers a wide range of care and support services, there are some things it does not fund. These are generally everyday personal expenses or services already covered by other government programs.
Examples of what’s not covered include:
- General living costs like rent, groceries, utility bills, or home internet
- Medical services already covered by Medicare or the PBS (e.g. GP visits, prescription medications)
- Entertainment or lifestyle costs (e.g. concert tickets, pay TV, holidays)
- Major home renovations or improvements not related to safety or accessibility
- Items already provided by other programs, such as the NDIS or DVA
Applying for Support at Home Funding
Navigating the home care system is overwhelming, so why not start with a call to Right at Home in your local area to get help. We will come to your home and assist you to get registered with My Aged Care and assist with the steps below, at no cost to you and obligation free.
