Astley Care In Home Services

Choice, Dignity and Independence are at the Heart of Astley Care in everything we do! 

Astley Care has been operating as a not-for-profit organisation for over 37 years in the Gosnells and Armadale areas. We provide quality support for Seniors and their carers to remain living in their own homes. Astley Care can offer a wide range of tailored and flexible services to help you or your loved ones stay as independent as they want in their local community and live a life enriched with fulfilment. Astley Care aims to provide a quality service by:

• Employing Local staff that have a personal touch
• Matching you with support staff, we feel you will like and trust
• Training our staff to ensure they are confident and competent in supporting you
• Listening well to understand your individual needs; we tailor the support to you
• Keeping you informed of changes related to your support
• Providing you with direct contact details for your dedicated Care Coordinator
• Encouraging feedback about our services from you, your loved ones, your carer and the wider community

Astley Care is an inclusive organisation, welcoming people living with memory loss, Dementia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from the LGBTIQ+ community and people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds to access our services.

Understanding Assessment and Access
An assessment is required from My Aged Care to access any of our services In-Home or at our Day Centre at a reduced cost. You can contact My Aged Care on 1800 200 422 to arrange an assessment and ask to be referred to Astley Care for support. If you need help with your assessment, please let us know.

Our CHSP In-Home Services are tailored to your needs:
Domestic Assistance
We can support you with basic housekeeping tasks to keep you as independent as possible in your home. Helping with the things you find more difficult such as vacuuming, washing floors, laundry, and meal preparation, ensures you can keep doing the things that are important to you. 

Shopping and Transport
If you are having difficulty accessing your community, the shopping centre and medical appointments, Astley Care can transport you when you need help. For many of us, shopping is not just a task. Shopping is an important social activity that helps them keep in touch with the broader community. We have support with independent shopping or transport, where you are supported by your driver or support staff member to go where you want to go. At Astley Care, we also have options for social shopping buses; this group of people go together and have a social morning tea whilst completing their shopping. Transport is adaptive support to access medical requirements, appointments in the community, visits to family or friends, and shopping. We want to help you access places that are important to you.  

Astley Care has an array of vehicles including modified hoist-equipped vehicles; we ensure that your needs are supported by the right vehicle for you.

Social Support One to One
Do you wish you could go into the community? Being limited in your social interaction or being socially isolated can significantly impact your health and well-being. Astley Care values physical and mental well-being; we encourage our clients to participate in activities in the community if they want to. Astley Care provides a wide range of social support outings in groups and one-to-one visits. Our Support Workers can visit you at home and take you out to somewhere of your choice.
Sometimes you may not feel like going out; we can also arrange for one of our staff to visit your home for a social visit or for someone to telephone you regularly to chat. We support you in exploring all the options in your support requirements.

Personal Care
Looking after your personal care needs is a sensitive topic. Our staff can come to your home to help you maintain your dignity and privacy by providing assistance where needed with tasks that you may be finding a little difficult. Some of the tasks we offer, if required, are helping you with your showering, bathing, dressing, and shaving as well as medication prompting and management.

Home Maintenance/Gardening
Our home maintenance service, which includes gardening and other light maintenance tasks, is provided to enable you to live safely in your home. Services include lawn mowing, pruning of shrubs, cleaning gutters, changing light bulbs and smoke alarm batteries and other odd jobs.

Respite & Carer Support – in the Home
Taking on a carer role can, at times, be exhausting. Sometimes, a carer may want to do something special for themselves; if you don't feel you can do this in your caring role or don't do this often enough, we can help by supporting your loved one while you go out.

Our support workers are well trained, including in dementia care, and will provide company in the home, outings, personal care, meal preparation and light housework with the aim of giving the carer a break. Respite can be carried out on a regular, planned or one of basis and is available on weekdays. Limited hours are also open on weekends and evenings to enable carers to attend special occasions.

Even if you have not yet been assessed for support, please feel free to call us to find out how Astley Care Home Care's lower-level support can help you live your best life!