{"id":720913,"date":"2026-06-07T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720913\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:29:31","slug":"ageing-in-australia-valerie-brown-95-explains-support-at-home-programs-value-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720913\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageing in Australia | Valerie Brown, 95 explains Support at Home program&#8217;s value | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">The third element of support is there to help people remain independent. This includes money for &#8220;personal care such as showering and using the toilet, accessing social activities, transport, respite care, assistive technology or home modifications to help you stay independent&#8221;. The government guide says it excludes &#8220;hairdressing and beauty services, tickets for attractions, personal vehicle running costs&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third element of support is there to help people remain independent. This includes money for &#8220;personal care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-720913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}