healthAbility

14/11/2025

Join us for our Healthy Ageing Future Planning event, a relaxed and informative session designed to help you or your loved ones stay well, independent, and supported as you age. 🌿✨

Hear from:

• Robyn (PrimeCare) – practical tips on proactive financial planning and navigating aged care with confidence

• Jess (Elder Rights Australia) – how their free, confidential service supports and protects older Victorians

• Our Support at Home team – local services that help you live well at home

Enjoy light afternoon tea, time for questions, and the chance to connect with others in our community.

📍 Wednesday 19 November
Wominjeka Room, healthAbility Eltham
917 Main Road, Eltham

📩 RSVP by 18 November
socialactivities@https://bit.ly/3RLXpLq
| (03) 9430 9125

More info: https://bit.ly/3RLXpLq

14/11/2025

Our Annual Report 2024-2025 is now available!

This year’s Report highlights the progress we have made so far during the first full year of our 2025-2027 strategy, as we continue to work to provide high quality, sustainable, and innovative person-centred care to our clients and broader community.

It also outlines our commitment to connecting with our clients and consumers to listen, learn and understand how we can improve to ensure the best possible outcomes for everyone who visits healthAbility.

Thank you to all clients and consumers who have joined our Community Champions Advisory Group (CCAG) and taken part in our research projects this year. Your time, honesty, passion, and willingness to collaborate have been integral in helping us to implement our strategy and learn and improve together.

In addition to client and consumer research, this Report references our ongoing focus on collecting and measuring client outcome and impact data. Next year we will be releasing a summary of this data as an impact report highlighting the health and wellbeing outcomes for our clients.

Thank you to our Board, staff, volunteers, partners, clients, stakeholders and community members for your contributions to this Annual Report. We value your support as we look ahead to a year of growing and innovating our services for the benefit of everyone in our communities.

To read our latest Annual Report please visit https://healthability.org.au/about/strategy-and-reports

11/11/2025

✨ Home Care Packages is now called Support at Home — same trusted care, just a new name! 💙

As of 1 November 2025, the Home Care Packages program has officially been replaced by the Support at Home program. Designed by the Australian Government, it helps older Australians live safely, independently, and comfortably at home.

This flexible program offers more in-home care options to ensure quality support for those who need it most. Our team of care partners can help develop a personalised plan that may include personal care, home modifications, or extra support services, whatever you need to stay independent at home.

With nearly 50 years as a trusted community health provider, healthAbility continues to help older Australians and their families stay connected and supported in their homes and communities. 💙

To find out more about Support at Home, visit https://bit.ly/3WOTgYI

📧 Email: sah@healthability.org.au
☎️ Phone: 9430 9104

07/11/2025

🎄 Be a part of our Reverse Advent Calendar! 🎁

This Christmas, we’re proud to be a collection point for CareNet’s Reverse Advent Calendar, helping fill hampers for local families in need.

Here’s how to get involved:
1️⃣ Pick up a box from our healthAbility Eltham Reception
2️⃣ Fill it with 20 non-perishable items — things like cereal, pasta, rice, long-life milk, canned goods, biscuits or coffee.
3️⃣ Return your box to healthAbility Reception by 20 November 2025

Team up with your local school, sports club, workplace or family at home to help us fill these Christmas hampers for CareNet.

CareNet will collect and distribute the hampers throughout our local communities to families who need a little extra support this Christmas.

💛 Together we can make Christmas brighter!
Thank you, and Merry Christmas! ✨

07/11/2025

Our healthAbility Repair Cafe - Whitehorse is back tomorrow - Saturday, 8 November, 10am-2pm at Strathdon House and Orchard Precinct, 449/465 Springvale Rd, Forest Hill.

Our team of amazing volunteer repairers will be available to help fix any of your broken items and restore them to their former glory. We hope to see you there!

Repairs available:
📱 Electronic Repairs
⚡ Electronic Repairs
👕 Garment (Sewing, Patching) Repairs
🪑 Furniture Repairs
🎠 Wooden Toys & Wooden Product Repairs
🪄 General Odd Job Repairs
🍂 Garden Tools Sharpening
🖼️ Picture Frame Repairs*

How much does it cost:
Repairs at our healthAbility Repair Café are free, thanks to our dedicated volunteers who donate their time and materials. To support us, please consider donating to cover materials costs and enjoy baked goods and beverages available for a donation. Your support helps us continue providing this valuable service.

Delivered in partnership with Whitehorse City Council and supported by the Rotary Club of Box Hill Central.

31/10/2025

We will be closed on Tuesday, 4 November. We will reopen on Wednesday, 5 November.

🔸The After Hours Mental Health Nursing Service 1300 003 509 (freecall), in-home care, and CHOPER will remain open.
🔸For a medical emergency or mental health crisis, please call 000.
🔸For a dental emergency, please call The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne on 9341 1000.
🔸For 24-hour crisis support, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

31/10/2025

What a day to celebrate! We are absolutely thrilled to see Victoria’s Treaty Bill pass Parliament this morning 🖤💛❤️ We recognise the significance of this moment - it is a huge step forward for First Nations’ self-determination. We will walk alongside First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria and all Aboriginal-led organisations.

To learn more about healthAbility’s commitment to Reconciliation, you can visit: https://healthability.org.au/reconciliation-action-plan

30/10/2025

🌟 That’s a Wrap on the Victorian Seniors Festival!

It’s been a wonderful few weeks celebrating connection, creativity and community. 💜

From Connect and Create: An Afternoon of Wellbeing to Crafting Connections, Mend and Mingle, and the Eltham Seniors Community Day — it’s been a joy sharing these moments with you all.

To find out more about the services available for seniors and our Social Activity Groups, visit https://bit.ly/3RLXpLq or call (03) 9430 9100 or email contact@healthability.org.au.

28/10/2025

Welcome to our new refurbished Eltham reception, including a fun kids’ space and Community Cupboard. A grant was sourced through the Victorian Health Building Authority under the 2023-2024 Metropolitan Health Infrastructure Fund. It brings this space in line with modern accessibility standards, including a centralised automatic entryway, inclusive and ambulant restrooms, an internal corridor linking our building and modified doors for easy access to our Womin Jeka activity space.

14/10/2025

As one of the 23 independent community health services, healthAbility welcomes the Community Health First 2024-25 Impact Report.

Read about the impact of our Little Chompers oral health education program, along with our work as part of The Inner East Prevention Partnership (IEPP) with Access Health and Community, Latrobe Community Health Service and Each.

We're continuing the call for more investment in community health. With better facilities, we can make it easier for everyone – especially the most vulnerable – to get the care they need, when they need it.

Community Health is reaching more Victorians than ever before.

Our People, Place & Partnerships Impact Report showcases the collective achievements of Victoria’s registered, independent community health organisations and the growing demand for trusted, local care.

In the past year, over 674,000 Victorians accessed community health services — an 11% increase.

Community health is now the first point of contact for many Victorians, delivering care that is:
✅ Affordable

✅ Local

✅ Personalised

Community health programs are reducing emergency department visits, improving chronic disease management, and saving the health system money — with some programs returning up to $13 for every $1 invested.

Read the full report:https://fb186728-5e13-440b-88bf-11a9cf23ccba.filesusr.com/ugd/069311_251680dada624a8f88f99cd253ee662c.pdf

13/10/2025

We may be halfway through the Victorian Seniors Festival, but we still have some fabulous events coming up to help you connect, create and celebrate!

To find out more and book please visit https://bit.ly/3IgOW0E

🌻Connect and Create: An Afternoon of Wellbeing
Date: Friday 17 October
Time: 1.30pm-3.30pm
Where: healthAbility Eltham, 917 Main Road Eltham
Cost: Free
Bookings: https://bit.ly/46QdoQ3

🎨Crafting Connections
Date: Tuesday 21 October
Time: 10.00am-12.00pm
Where: healthAbility Box Hill, ground floor, 43 Carrington Road, Box Hill
Cost: Free
Bookings: https://bit.ly/46QnpwH

13/10/2025

🌟 National Carers Week: 12–18 October 🌟

This year’s theme, “You are, know, or will be one,” highlights how caring touches almost everyone’s life. We honour and celebrate the 3 million Australians who provide care to family members or friends.

Later in the month, we will be hosting free morning tea events with healthAbility’s Carer Support Program team, a wonderful chance to connect with other carers, share stories, and enjoy some well-deserved time for yourself. Plus, there’s a chance to win a door prize to support your wellbeing!

📅 Event Dates:

📆 Wednesday 29 October 2025
💰Free event
🕚 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 The Main Cafe

📆 Wednesday 26 November 2025
💰Free
🕚 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 The Main Cafe

Bring a friend or family member, and RSVP by emailing carers@healthability.org.au
at least one week prior.

Let’s celebrate carers together! 💙