SMHS Older Adult Community Integrated Care Hub

The South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) Older Adult Community Integrated Care Hub provides older people with health and wellbeing care in one convenient community setting.

It helps you get the right care, at the right time, in the right place.

At one location, you can:

• see onsite doctors, nurses and allied health professionals
• get health assessments, advice and care planning
• connect with rehabilitation and recovery support services
• get help navigating aged care or health systems and explore options to local services such as home care, social activities or community transport.

Your care may be delivered in a variety of ways, including:

• face-to-face appointments at our hub located at 11 Wentworth Pde, Success inside the Cockburn Integrated Health and Community Facility (above Cockburn Library)
• phone or video appointments
• home visits (where appropriate).

How the hub can help you

You may benefit from visiting the hub if you:

• find daily tasks harder
• have frequent hospital visits
• take many medications
• have memory or thinking problems
• face social challenges, such as living alone.

Who can use the hub

You must meet a few eligibility criteria to use hub services. These include:

• living in the South Metropolitan Health Service catchment area
• being aged over 65 years, or over 50 years if Aboriginal
• having complex health needs.

Our services

We offer a wide range of services to support you, and the family and friends who care for you.

Health and specialist care services include:

• geriatric assessment and advice
• help finding and connecting with a general practitioner (GP)
• specialist allied health services including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, dietetics, pharmacy and social work.

Social and aged care support includes:

• help navigating the health system
• support to link in with social services including housing, transport, and community services
• support to access aged care assessment and reassessment services
• advance care planning
• support for carers and families.

How to access our services

Ask your GP to refer you or someone you care for to the hub.

Once we receive your referral, we will:

• assess your needs – this may be done over the phone, via a face-to-face appointment or a home visit (if appropriate)
• connect you with the right services
• coordinate follow-up care with your GP and other providers.

Refer a patient

More information

For more information, please speak with your GP.