Assistance with personal emergency planning for fire and heatwave preparation
The Victorian Government has provided local councils and other HACC assessment services with extra funding to provide frail older people and younger people with disabilities, who may need extra support, to prepare for the upcoming fire season through personal emergency planning and heatwave preparation.
Assistance with personal emergency planning for fire and heatwave preparation activities at home for Home and Community Care clients
The Victorian Government has provided local councils and other HACC assessment services with extra funding to provide frail older people and younger people with disabilities, who may need extra support, to prepare for the upcoming fire season through personal emergency planning and heatwave preparation.
Who is eligible?
There is a small group of Home and Community Care (HACC) clients in the community who may be unable to effectively prepare and plan for an emergency and heatwave themselves.
They are HACC clients:
- living in high risk areas
- who are socially isolated; and
- who have some level of cognitive impairment that would mean that they cannot develop a personal emergency plan without support.
Flags for social isolation include some or all of the following characteristics:
- living alone with no co-resident carer
- having no next of kin identified in their patient record
- needing an interpreter
- a client of the HACC Response Service
- a Community Connection client
- no family/friends or social networks nearby
- no near neighbours or no neighbours they have a connection with.
Where to refer?
Local councils are currently working with those HACC clients that need extra support to prepare personal emergency plans.
If you have a patient that meets the above criteria and does not have a personal emergency plan, you can refer them to their local council or case manager for consideration.