The Transition Care Program aims to help you improve your independence and confidence after a hospital stay. It provides a package of services including low intensity therapy and personal and/or nursing care as part of an ongoing but slower recovery process. This means that you and your family or carer have time to consider your long-term care arrangements, which may include returning home with community support or accessing the level of care provided by an aged care home.
Transition care in the Northern Territory is currently provided in a 'live-in' setting, with a purpose furbished facility in Katherine. It is anticipated in 2008 that there will be an increased number of Transitional Care places available in the Northern Territory.
Transition care can be provided for a period of up to 12 weeks, with a possibility to extend to 18 weeks if you are assessed as needing an extra period of therapeutic care. The average period of care is expected to be about eight weeks.