Rural Aged Care Fund
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Funds mobile aged-care services for elderly residents in rural and remote areas without a local residential care facility.
Why this matters in Australia
A hard choice faces older people in country towns and remote communities once they need more help: wait for services that may come once a fortnight from a regional center hours away, or move to residential care far from family and country. Care staff shortages hit rural providers hardest. For older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, leaving country to enter care can also mean losing daily connection to community and culture.
Commonwealth funding for care at home is set nationally, but delivering it costs more in the bush, where a single visit can involve hours of driving. Travel time and distance remain a large part of the cost of rural care under the Support at Home program, which replaced Home Care Packages from November 2025, and some people wait months for an assessment or a funded place. Mobile services bring nursing, personal care and equipment to the door so people can stay in their own homes and towns for longer.
What your gift pays for
- Fuel and vehicle running costs for nurses and care workers covering long distances between clients
- Nursing and personal care visits for older people still waiting for funded support
- Mobility aids, shower chairs and personal alarms that make living at home safer
- Telehealth equipment so clinicians can check in between in-person visits
Organization
Silverchain · Australia
ACNC / Australian Business Register (Silver Chain Group Limited) · No. 77 119 417 018
Founded 1905 · Headquarters: Perth
Australian not-for-profit provider of in-home health and aged care services, including in rural and remote areas.
How they work: Silverchain delivers care in people's homes rather than in facilities, with nurses, care workers and allied health staff working from local and regional bases. Its services span home care, community nursing, palliative care and hospital-in-the-home programs that treat acute illness at home, so an older client can move between levels of support without changing provider. It also uses remote monitoring and virtual care to extend clinical oversight across large distances.
Track record: Silverchain has served isolated country areas since its 1944 merger with the Bush Trained Nursing Society and now supports more than 125,000 Australians a year with care at home.
✓ Verified by our team on 27 July 2025
Giving in Australia
Distance from services links three of the four Australian causes. Young people in regional and rural areas face long public mental health waits, which headspace helps bridge with free or low-cost support, and elderly residents in remote areas without a local care facility receive mobile aged care through Silverchain. Adults who left school early can take free or low-cost classes in literacy, numeracy and digital skills. The fourth cause, with AIATSIS, preserves and digitizes Aboriginal oral history and cultural artifacts at risk of being lost.
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