At the moment it is a mix of old style Australian frozen meals heated in the oven, quite healthy microwave meals bought at a speciality place, the cooking of Phyllis and an occasional meal out along with a takeaway meal maybe once a fortnight.
However, as a person of certain age, I am entitled to Aged Care help. I have requested a cleaner for my bathroom, a hand rail to be installed in my shower and meals three times a week. I don't have an aged care package, specifying a dollar amount of help I will receive to reasonably spend on what I need, but the precursor to that, just some minor home help judged by ability to manage to live in my home.
The meals are interesting. This was once called Meals on Wheels, with the food cooked and delivered by volunteers at no cost, overseen by the local council. This had generally everywhere been overtaken by aged care, with food mass produced and delivered by professionals and you have to pay.
In my case, I've chosen to have three meals a week delivered. The cost for each is around $10, but it is for three courses, soup, a main meal and desert. I think it starts next week and it will be interesting to see what the food is like. I had make choices about the food on the hop over the phone, but I will get a paper sheet to mark my next choices.
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You don't like to cook? Or don't know how?
ReplyDeleteInterested to see how you like the meals.
We don't get anything like that unless we're almost incapable. Social care in UK is appalling.The Labour party under Blair were going to link health and social care, but didn't. Can't trust politicians, whatever their stripe.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for grab bars in bathrooms, and other places, even before you get old. Anyone can fall in the shower. The meals, I guess you'll see.
ReplyDeleteWhen we renovated one of our bathrooms I had grab rails installed. In the shower and the towel rail is also a grab rail. There are grab rails in both toilets too - which is very handy when it is difficult to stand up again. Good luck on the meals front. I didn't know Meals on Wheels had been taken over.
ReplyDeleteHi Andrew, Is the Aged Care Help provided by the government? I'll be interested to hear how you like the food from Meals on Wheels. When the HH had surgery, our insurance provided meals for approx two weeks, which I thought was great.
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That is a great service for your pensioners. As Janice says, we get nothing like that as an automatic right. Please report back on how you like (or not) the meals.
ReplyDeleteUsually private caterer provides better quality meals
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