TGCA provides in-home support when it is needed most.

Your loved one’s last few weeks or months are a sensitive time. This time can be a graceful and nurturing one for a family. Our Palliative care team has the experience and wisdom to help your loved one and family through this phase with dignity and compassion.

Palliative-care may require some nursing as well as personal care. We work alongside the hospice nurses and other support networks to cohesively deliver compassionate care.

Our carers provide support to family and friends during the course of the illness and in their period of grief and loss.

We understand that illness affects the whole person – physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually and aim to relieve pain and other signs of distress.

Treating you with respect and safe guarding freedom and choice is our mission.

Who is your carer? Expect your Carer to have a mature personality with life experience that delivers trusted low-key home care at a stressful time for family and friends.

Contact us for a preliminary chat and register your care request. Your service delivery manager will coordinate with you a time to meet and complete a palliative-care plan.

A single carer or a small team of carers are carefully selected to provide support. You can expect carers to have end-of-life care training and experience. Your carer is assigned and care delivery commences with a focus on maintaining dignity and comfort. You determine the hours you require either as a planned roster or at short notice. Services can stop / re-start at any point in time as required by you. Engage a Carer to support as much or as little as you require.

No referral is necessary but often referrals for this service are made by Hospice nurses or community based Social Workers.

I wanted to drop a special thank you to you and your team for helping us through dads last days. You were so helpful from the get go! Aunty Vicky and Aunty Val were both amazing and a great support to us as well as dad.

Vicky was excellent with dad, especially in the early days when he was still semi mobile. She is easy going and just went with whatever dad wanted to do.

Val was also amazing, more so in the latter days dad went downhill. Her medical knowledge, ability to talk to the doctor and nurses was a real help.

I would recommend them both and also the Good Companion service to anyone, and have done! Even Hospice have asked for your details as they found both of the girls great to work with. Thank you once again for being there in our time of need."

August 2020