Attendant Care Services

Colbrow can provide attendant care services covering both daytime support for personal care, therapy support, and community access as well as either active or inactive overnight support.

Attendant care services are provided to help you rehabilitate after your accident and as much as possible, maintain your activities of daily living. These services may include our compassionate healthcare team providing physical assistance with activities of daily living, prompting with personal care such as showering, dressing, and eating as well as providing therapy support for programs developed by health professionals such as physiotherapists. We can also support you to access your community for activities such as shopping, banking, employment, and education.

Our team will tailor you a treatment plan incorporating the support services that are deemed essential to your rehabilitation and recovery goals. Your treatment plan will be based on our person-centred approach to care, be individualised, and allow for community access and participation whilst maintaining your independence and dignity.

Our daytime support services can provide physical assistance with personal care activities, as recommended by your treating allied health care professional. Such activities may include getting up and ready for the day, showering, dressing, and eating.

Your injuries may have left you on crutches or temporarily having to navigate your home in a wheelchair. Having mobility aids can make ordinary activities in the home very difficult, so we can also help you move about your home and garden safely.

Therapy support often forms a substantial part of support plan as recommended by your treating health professional.

Physiotherapy and occupational therapy are often essential services following transport accidents and integral to your successful recovery. We can provide you the support to actively participate in goal-directed home or community-based rehabilitation activities where the support is necessary to achieve the specific goals and outcomes documented in your support plan.

Your treatment protocol and progress will be reviewed frequently by your treating health professional and adjusted accordingly.

Community access may be difficult following an accident. Resultant injuries may have left you unable to drive yourself or unable to attend to tasks such as grocery shopping, banking, or catching up with a friend for a coffee. We can assist and support you to participate in community activities, as recommended by your treating health professional.

Remaining valued and connected to your community throughout your recovery is important for your mental health and wellbeing.

Sometimes, injuries sustained in transport accidents require overnight support for a period of 8 consecutive hours.

Our compassionate and experienced healthcare team can provide both active and inactive overnight support, dependent on your individual needs and the nature of your injuries.

Active overnight attendant care services include those where we are required to provide active assistance or support to you for the consecutive 8 hours you would normally sleep.

These services are wide-ranging depending on your needs and may include toileting, medication administration, re-positioning you in bed, and monitoring.

Inactive overnight support is where we deploy an attendant carer to your home so that someone is present but not actively required to physically assist or support you.