
Get to know your Neighbours and help build a connected community
How well do you know your neighbours? We have found some great resources by City of Melville, City of Gosnells, City of Albany and Neighbourhood Watch promoting meeting your neighbours. Lots of benefits for yourself and them. We’ve put together some printable cards that can be used to drop in your neighbours’ letterboxes if you don’t feel comfortable approaching them directly.
Staying Healthy and Well
Regional Aged Care, WA Country Health Service | 9781 4000
MyAgedCare is the best place to start if you need to accessing Australian Government funded services to help you to stay independent and at home or need to access a residential facility.
Planning Ahead – Advance Care Planning
Advance care planning promotes care that is consistent with your goals, values, beliefs and preferences. It prepares you and others to plan for future health care and a time when you may no longer be able to communicate those decisions yourself.
It involves 4 key things:
- Will (how you wish your assets to be distributed upon your death)
- Enduring Power of Guardianship (who makes personal, lifestyle and treatment decisions on your behalf)
- Enduring Power of Attorney (who makes financial and/or property decisions on your behalf)
- Advance Health Directive (outlines treatment you would want – or not want – to receive if you ever became sick or injured and were incapable of communicating your wishes)
You can access online support and forms from
Having a conversation
Online help and tips on how to talk to others can be found at
- Dying to Talk
- Start to Talk (dementia resource)
Health specific information
- Organ donation
- Understanding dementia
- Alzheimer’s WA
- Continence Management & Advice
- Neurological Council of WA
- Parkinson’s WA
Planning your own Funeral
Please see the our planning my funeral resource for an easy to use guide to help you develop a plan for your own funeral.
Help for Carers
- Red Cross Carers Support, Bunbury | 1800 052 222
- Carers WA |1300 227 377
- Carer Gateway | 1800 422 737
- South West Rural Respite Service | 9284 7562
Disability
- Technology for Ageing and Disability (TADWA) | 1300 663 243
- Visability | 1800 847 466
Financial Support
- Carers allowance from the Department of Human Services
- Dementia and Cognition Supplement