Quality assessors from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission will be visiting us on 2 May 2019 to check the quality of care and services we provide to our clients.

The assessor will visit our office and clients, volunteers and staff will have the opportunity to meet with her to talk about the quality of care and services we provide.

This Review will look at meals, group social support and individual social support which are the three areas of our work.

The Commission records our services as;

Meals - the service provides frozen delivered meal service to approximately 180 care recipients in the region.
The service also manages a group and individual social support program for over forty care recipients.
Services are supported by staff and a dedicated volunteer workforce that work across meal delivery and/or the social support programs.

Social support programs - Out and About is a group social support program that offers a pick-up service for care recipients to enjoy a day out with friends and enjoy great activities and lunch.
The program operates Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Individual social support is offered throughout the week with volunteers who visit care recipients at home or take them shopping or to appointments.

We look forward to hosting the assessor from 9 am until 5pm.

PALZ is coming to Eurobodalla Meals on Wheels in May!

This new initiative will continue to strengthen the wide array of activities which Eurobodalla Meals on Wheels provides to the community.

PALZ (Professionals with Alzheimer's) started in Geelong and is spreading around Australia and internationally. Chapters are already in Geelong, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. London is a new location as is the Eurobodalla.

"PALZ provides a bi-monthly, interactive meeting environment with corporate speakers. It is an opportunity to discuss current issues with fellow professionals. Like you, attendees are capable, thinking and independent professionals who just happen to have Alzheimer's or a similar disaease," says Founder Cathy Roth OAM.

The Patron, Professor Michael Woodward AM says, "It is my honour as Patron to both support this timely association and to encourage professionals to participate. With over 400,000 Australians affected by dementia -mostly Alzheimer's Disease -there is understandably a focus on overarching care and support. But those who have been high functioning pillars of the community are often slower to diagnose, and feel at sea when this diagnosis is achieved. Current supports are extremely valuable but do not always take into account the previous activities and aspirations of the newly diagnosed person. PALZ unashamedly targets the needs of those who have defined themseleves by their contribution at the whole of society level, and indeed draws on these skills that may otherwise have been discarded once the diagnosis of dementia was attached." Annual Report 2016/2017

Our meetings will challege, stimulate, inform and allow you to discuss a range of topics.

• The meetings will start on May 7th, at 10am.
• They will be held at Banksia Village Board Room, in Health Street, Broulee.
• The meeting will include morning tea, last 2 hours and see a gold coin entry fee to offset costs.
• Each attendee should have a carer with them throughout the meeting.

Further details can be sought from Eurobodalla Meals on Wheels in Moruya on 4474 4464.

Eurobodalla Meals on Wheels provides 'more than a meal' and looks forward to PALZ providing for members of the community.

During March, the Client Services Officer (Bethany McLean) has added to the menu new meal choices for our clients.

The Manager found The Good Food Company at the New South Wales Meals on Wheels Conference in 2018.

Since that time the Food Panel has sampled their meals and recommended 16 items for the initial trial. These items include two soups, seven mini meals, 5 main meals and 2 desserts.

Over March, these have been availabe to clients and they have proved to be a huge success. Some items have sold out and had to be reordered so the trial could continue.

More items have been sampled, including hot breakfast packs, and they will be included on the revised Menu which will be availabe in April.

"The feedback has been wonderful and beyond expectation," says Manager Alan Russell. "We are delighted to be able to refresh our menu and to provide for our clients the best possible service."

Eurobodalla Meals on Wheels believes in Continuous Imporvement of its services for clients in the meals being offered, and in the Group and Individual Social Support programmes available.