DVA Nursing & Veterans Home Care

If you are:

• an Australian Defence Force Veteran or;
• a war widow,
• and you have a Gold Repatriation Health Card

Then you may be entitled to receive Veterans Home Care (VHC) services or Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Nursing through the Commonwealth Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Veterans Home Care provides services that support eligible Veterans, War Widows and Widowers to remain independent in their own home and include:

• Personal care
• Domestic assistance
• Shopping assistance
• In-home respite
• Arrange gardening & minor maintenance
• Arrange transport to appointments

To access Veterans Home Care services:

A comprehensive assessment is conducted by a VHC assessor. A majority of assessments are done over the telephone. Individual circumstances are discussed to identify the range of services that may be required.

To arrange an assessment for services, phone the VHC assessment agency on 1300 550 450.

Following the assessment, agreed services will be written in a care plan and referred to The District Nurses.

Once the referral is received, we will phone to discuss a suitable day and time to provide the service(s) that have been approved in the care plan.