Multicultural Home Respite IncRegistered

SERVICE PROFILE The Home Visiting & Dementia Support Service (MHV&DSS) recently celebrated its 26th Anniversary. The project was created over 25 years ago with the purpose of contributing to meet some of the needs of the elderly and younger people with a disability, who are from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background, and live within the Marrickville and Canterbury Municipalities. PRINCIPLE The principle of MHRI, is to assist the elderly and younger people with adisability, to maintain a personal degree of independence within their respective homes and not to require inappropriate permanent residential care. The Home Visiting and Dementia Support Service is the instrument used by the organization to achieve this undertaking. PHILOSOPHY Multicultural Home Respite believes in the right of the individual: to make choices in their own life; to experience dignity, respect, privacy and confidentiality; to be valued as an individual; to access services on a nondiscriminatory basis; to accountable and responsive community services; to be accountable of duty of care practices. OUTCOMES The results pursued by Multicultural Home Respite are: for people that are aged and disabled to be able to remain in their own homes; that primary care givers and families are supported in their roles; the agency operates in an effective, efficient and accountable manner. TARGET GROUP People who live in the Marrickville and Canterbury Local Government Areas (LGAs) who are: frail aged, isolated and/or house bound and/or have a disability; those from Culturally and Linguistic Diverse background (CALD) who speak little or no English; people with dementia; the carers of the consumers