Mission: ‘Supporting older Australians to live independently with In-home aged services’
What it does: Providing services packaged for aged-up clients.
Size and presence: 1-50 employees
Best known for: Its services for older civilians
The good bits: It will give you a sense of purpose, it has a supportive and encouraging environment, it has a flexible working time
Age Up Health is founded by Grace Petherick, inspired by her own grandparent’s experience. Petherick found elderly often get treated appallingly when they asked for an aged care provider service.
She said that her grandparents were forced to make a big purchase for essential home alterations and they had to wait for months. Nobody returned their call, and they were often refused requests like a basic home service.
Petherick realized that this treatment is unacceptable, thus, she started to find out and build her own aged care business, intended to help aged civilians who needs better help and care.
Age Up Health is now providing many types of in-home aged care services and support. Some of the services they provide are Dementia Care Support, Home Care Advisory, Preventative Healthcare Plan, Staying Safe in My Home, and many more.
The service area includes social community (transport services, personal shoppers & assistance, companionship, help attending social events, etc), home management (home gardening & maintenance, meal services, cleaning & laundry, etc), health and wellness (medication management, dementia support, pain & wound management, etc), and personal safety (equipment & alarm, home modification to prevent slip and fall, personal safety technology, etc).
Some employees in Age Up Health said that they experience a transparent, supportive, encouraging, and positive working environment. Many of them also claim that the company has a friendly management environment. It has great teamwork since its core business involves providing service together for elderly civilians, it requires them to work together to provide care for aged clients.
Age Up Health spreads information about vacant positions on its website, however, it also posted information on another job-seeking platform. The company will require the applicant to submit their COVID-19 training module, and vaccination declaration document, along with the application form provided by the company. The applicant is also expected to submit a cover letter and resume.
In Aged Up Health, there are two kinds of occupations, part-time and full-time. If you have a main job and still want to do something more between your free or flexible schedule, there is a part-time opportunity as a care companion, Osteopath & Physiotherapist, or Occupational Therapist. Other roles you may find interesting are care support specialist and aged care advisor.
Aged Up Health pays part-time care companions at AUS30-39,9 per hour. While a care support specialist will receive AUS25-34,99 per hour, and an aged care advisor will receive AUS70.000-79.000 per year.
There is no record of Aged Up Health’s CSR or community activity. However, Aged Up Health’s core business itself covers an essential social issue in Australia, which is to provide a quality service to elderly citizens. It helps many clients since the day the company operates.
There is no record of controversy involving Aged Up Health to this day. However, as a service company, Aged Up Health will eventually face a complaint from several customers in their area. It receives a lot of positive reviews in TrustPilot, with one or two negative reviews regarding the service they provide.