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Useful organisations and services
Home modifications
Home Assist Secure
Home Assist Secure aims to remove some of the practical housing difficulties experienced by older people and people with a disability who wish to remain living in their home.
Home Assist Secure provides free information, advice and subsidised assistance that relates to the health, safety and security of eligible clients, such as:
- information and referral on home maintenance, repairs, minor modifications and home and personal security and
- information and assistance with employing tradespeople, contracting experts or planning future work.
Home and Community Care Home Modification Services
Home and Community Care Home Modification Services aim to assist older people and people with a disability to remain living in their home.
The services may provide information, assessment, project management and/or financial assistance with larger home modifications, such as ramps and bathroom adaptations.
Queensland Home Adapt Loan
The Queensland Home Adapt Loan offers financial assistance to homeowners who require home modifications for either themselves or a household member.
The loan aims to assist older people and people with a disability to modify their home so they can undertake their usual day to day activities with greater safety and independence.
Modifications may include installing access ramps, widening hallways or doorways, or modifying a kitchen or bathroom.
Loans can range between $5,000 and $30,000 at a low fixed-interest rate for eligible applicants.
The loan is available through the Queensland Department of Communities (Housing and Homelessness Services). Please contact Housing Loans on 1300 654 322 to find out if the loan is available in your area and if you are eligible to apply.
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs provides home modification services to eligible clients with its Rehabilitation Health Card for All Conditions (Gold Card) or a Rehabilitation Health Card for Specific Conditions (White Card) through the Rehabilitation of Appliance Program.
This program provides appliances for self-help and rehabilitation purposes, and surgical aids exclusively for personal home use requirements.
Home modifications are only provided where the entitled person is unable to safely use existing facilities and where simple aids/non-structural modifications do not provide sufficient assistance to maintain an appropriate level of independence or safety. Home modifications are not provided in dwellings owned by the Queensland Department of Communities (Housing and Homelessness Services).
Queensland Department of Communities (Disability Services)
The Queensland Department of Communities (Disability Services) has a number of state-wide programs that provide support to people with a disability. These programs provide grant monies to individuals, rather than directly to organisations. Home modifications are not a core business of the Queensland Department of Communities (Disability Services) programs, but in some instances clients may be able to access monies for home modifications.
Last updated 27 May 2009
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