Mt Magnet Integrated Chronic Disease Care (ICDC)

The Integrated Chronic Disease Care (ICDC) is a program that partners with General Practitioners to provide a combination of care and multidisciplinary care for people living with chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular or respiratory conditions and required help accessing services.

The ICDC program focuses on improving your health and quality of life by providing free, individualised, holistic and coordinated services as well as support so you can better self-manage and receive the care needs of your condition.

Self-managing is important when living with a chronic disease. The ICDC program can help you develop management skills so you can:

• Monitor your health
• Deal with symptoms and effects of your condition
• Develop and follow and healthy diet
• Incorporate physical activity into your lifestyle
• Manage psychological and mental wellbeing demands
• Engage effectively with healthcare providers

Eligibility

To be eligible for the program, clients must be medically diagnosed with diabetes, chronic heart or respiratory disease and have limited access to coordinated care from allied or other health professional due to:

• Health or medical barriers
• Financial barriers
• Geographical barriers
• Social or cultural barriers
• Transport or physical access limitations
• Exhausting Medicare Chronic Disease Allied Health visits

To find out more about the program and if you are eligible, please contact your health clinic.