Gunning District Community & Health Service

Operator

not for profit

Established

1981

Gunning District Community and Health Service (trading as Gunning Community Care) is a not-for-profit community health service based in Gunning, NSW, that has supported elderly and disabled residents across the Southern Tablelands and Canberra Country region since 1981. The organisation provides home-based aged care support — not residential aged care — including case management, dementia support, respite care, domestic assistance, meal delivery, equipment loans, transport to medical appointments, and palliative care under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme and Home Care Packages. A community nursing team and visiting allied health professionals (physiotherapist, podiatrist, occupational therapist, and others) deliver care in clients' homes or at the Gunning Courthouse clinic, with four-wheel-drive vehicles used to reach remote farming properties. The service also operates social wellbeing groups such as the Monday Social Group and Gunning Men's Group to reduce isolation among elderly residents in the region. As a registered NDIS provider, Gunning Community Care additionally supports people living with disabilities and their families across its more than 6,000 square kilometre service area.