Bankstown Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT)

About Bankstown Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT)

The Aged Care Assessment Team provide assessment, rehabilitation, organisation of appropriate residential and community services, including respite care, for people over 65 years. They approve placement for Nursing homes & Hostels and also Community Aged Care Packages. An information service on Aged Care Facilities is available - Nursing Home/Hostel Information Liaison service (NHHILs), and Life After Placement (group for relatives of people in nursing homes). Comprehensive assessment is carried by a multi- disciplinary team include: medical doctors, nurses, Occupational therapist, speech pathologist, physiotherapist, neuropsychologist and social worker. The team has a continence advisor, who can provide information on the management of bladder/bowel problems. Frail Aged/Ethnic Day Care.