HSE home care packages
If you require home help rather than hospital care, the HSE may be able to assist you with cost of home care. Home care packages, which include home care cash grants, are grants brought in by the Government in 2006 to help support older people to continue living in their own community.
Services provided include:
- Public health nurses
- Home care attendants
- Home helps
- Physiotherapists
- Occupational therapists.
Home care packages vary depending on your needs – in some cases there may be a greater emphasis on home care assistants, while other packages may require a greater level of therapy or nursing care. Home care packages are also available to those older people who have been admitted to long term care and now wish to return to the community. Home care packages are additional support, over and above existing community services, designed to enhance rather than replace home support services already in place.
Assessment
If you are assessed and require additional services to those already available through community services, you may be referred for a home care package by any HSE health professional, whether community or hospital based.
How to apply
To apply for a home care package, you should contact the Public Health Nurse at your Local Health Centre for further information and an application form.
- HSE National Information Line
- Monday to Saturday, 8am-8pm
- Call Save: 1850 24 1850
- Email: info@hse.ie