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DVA has many housing schemes available to assist veterans and their dependants. Some of these include:

• Veterans' Affairs Network (VAN) an information, advice and advocacy service
• Veterans' Affairs Financial Information Service (VAFIS) provides financial information. Can be contacted through the VAN
• Residential Care Development Scheme - Helps entitled veterans and their widow/ers gain access to good residential and community care
• Homefront - is a falls and accident prevention program to assist veterans to live independently in their own homes. It aims to reduce the incident of accidents that cause pain and suffering, inconvenient hospital stays and premature nursing home admissions
• For more information on the above services contact DVA in each state. See Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) for contact details including a website link for DVA office locations website
• Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme (DHOAS) - DHOAS assists current and former Australian Defence Force (ADF) members and their families to achieve home ownership. DHOAS is administered by the Department of Veterans' Affairs on behalf of the Department of Defence. For contact details see the Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme website
• Defence Service Homes (DSH) provides housing assistance to people who are eligible as a result of service in the Australian Defence Force. For more information, contact DVA. For contact details, see Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA)

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is mainly responsible for aged care homes including hostels and nursing homes.

The Single Assessment System workforce will determine the level and/or type of care required by a person and provide information about the types of services that are available to suit their care needs. The Assessment Service Finder, available on the My Aged Care website, allows a person to locate the contact details required to commence the process.

The Single Assessment System workforce replaced the Regional Assessment Service (RAS), the Aged Care Assessments Teams (ACATs), and the independent Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) assessors to simplify and improve a person’s experience with the aged care system by:

• providing a single assessment pathway for older people so they do not have to change assessment providers as their care needs change
• ensuring access to assessments in regional, remote and rural areas
• reducing wait times to receive an assessment of care needs

My Aged Care is managed by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

My Aged Care assists older Australians and their families, people with special care needs and carers by providing a central source of information about available aged care services including home care, transition care, residential aged care homes and respite care.

My Aged Care can be contacted by phone or accessed online.

This page contains a link to the My Aged Care Website.