Good nutrition is the foundation of good health, but planning and preparing meals every day can become a challenge. We handle menu planning, shopping and cooking in your kitchen, ensuring every meal is fresh, safe and made exactly to your taste without the stress.
Fresh, Healthy Meals Tailored to Your Taste
We bring the joy of cooking back into your home. We work with you to design a menu that excites your taste buds and meets your nutritional goals.
- Menu Planning & Shopping: We accompany you to the shops or handle the list for you.
- Dietary Management: Strictly adhering to diabetic, low sodium, gluten free or texture modified diets.
- Food Safety: We check the fridge and pantry to remove expired items ensuring a safe kitchen.
- Batch Cooking: Preparing meals in bulk and portioning them for the freezer for easy options.
- Social Dining: Our caregivers love to chat while cooking and can share a meal with you.
Fresh, Healthy Meals Tailored to Your Taste
Our local caregivers provide meal preparation built around your preferences and nutritional goals, so you can enjoy wholesome, home-cooked meals without the effort.
- Menu planning and grocery shopping
- Dietary requirements followed carefully, in line with your health team's advice
- A well-stocked pantry and fridge, with expired items removed
- Fresh, home-cooked meals with company at the table
Fresh, healthy meals tailored to your taste
A menu that excites your taste buds and meets your nutritional goals.
Meal preparation right across
Ararat
Our caregivers live and work locally, so care at home is never far away, anywhere in Ararat.
- Ballarat
- Wendouree
- Lucus
- Alfredton
- Mount Helen
- Brown Hill
- Sebastopol
- Beaufort
- Creswick
- Buninyong
- Mount Clear
- Ballan
- Gordon
- Mount Egerton
- Avoca
- Ararat
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Meal preparation in Ararat:
How we can help
Do you cook in my home or bring the food?
We cook directly in your kitchen. This means every meal is fresh, hot and prepared exactly how you like it, and unlike frozen delivery services, you keep full control over the ingredients and flavours.
Can you cater to specific medical diets?
Yes. We often support clients with specific needs such as diabetes management, diets for heart health or texture modified diets for those with swallowing difficulties. We can follow instructions from your GP or Dietitian strictly.
Do you do the cleaning up?
Yes. We leave your kitchen spotless, washing the dishes, wiping down the benches and packing away any leftovers, so you can simply relax after your meal.
Can I go shopping with the caregiver?
Yes, we encourage it. Going to the supermarket or the local market is a great way to stay active. We can drive you there, help carry the bags and assist with unpacking at home.
Delivering a WOW Customer Experience
I am providing feedback on behalf of a NND client currently receiving services from Nurse Next Door Ballarat receiving chronic wound management. Michelle and her team have gone above and beyond for me, ensuring I feel comfortable prior to and during all procedures. I would like to thank Michelle and her team for providing an exceptional service. My wounds are improving each day thanks to Michelle and her skilled team. Noelene
Kymberly Rita Hartup
Nurse next door supports my husband with Alzhiemers, from first day I met the management team Michelle and Teacey, I have only found this organisation to be absolutely amazing. All the staff in the office couldn't be any more supportive, understanding, polite and completely professional The staff who come into my home are so professional, friendly, helpful and just amazing. Everyone of them not only support my husband but also myself. All staff are totally accommodating to my hisbands needs and undertake every task in such ease and completely professional. No matter what I have asked around my husbands support they all have been completely accommodating with no fuss just happy to help. I could not recommend nurse next door highly enough. I am person who does not mix their words and will only put my name behind recommendations unless I truly believed in what I have stated So take it from me, give nurse next door a call, you will never regret it Thank you to everyone at nurse next door for being so amazing, so accommodating friendly and totally beautiful. Most of all thank you for helping me look after my husband ❤️
Maria Taylor
Michelle is the most Amazing, compassionate, and caring Nurse who goes above and beyond! I highly recommend Michelle and her team without hesitation! Cared for my husband for his final 2 weeks, and she made me feel we had know each other for a life time! Sharyn
Sharyn Harrison
I am enormously grateful for the ongoing support which Nurse Next Door in Ballarat provides for my elderly mother. Their staff are consistently gracious, attentive and caring. Their services are professional and very competently delivered both in their home care and in their administrative arrangements. And their genuine dedication to my mother's well-being is superb.
Paul BEKIER
Tailored supports delivered with empathy and humour. The Ballarat Nurse Next Door team are highly skilled and always go above and beyond.
Sara Sansom
What a great idea, it has been needed for a long time. I have been doing aged care 20years, my family didn’t put my sister in a residential as we looked after her. I see so many people who do not need to be in residential with all the red tape. I have helped my nextdoor neighbours to get assistance at home. Wow keep up the good work.
Julie Stepnell
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Why Nurse Next Door?
Quality Home Care That’s Personal and Professional
Every Care Plan is thoughtfully crafted, and every Caregiver is meticulously chosen to meet your needs.
Quality Home Care That’s Personal and Professional
We Match You with Your Perfect Caregiver
We hand-pick the right person from our trusted team of Caregivers based on your needs, preferences and personality.
We Match You with Your Perfect Caregiver
Reliable Care with Our Attendance Monitoring System
Our activity monitoring system closely monitors every visit to ensure Caregivers arrive on time and schedules run smoothly.
Reliable Care with Our Attendance Monitoring System
Qualified & Insured Caregivers You Can Trust
Our Caregivers and Nurses are licensed, insured and highly qualified, with a minimum of two years’ experience.
Qualified & Insured Caregivers You Can Trust
We Aim to Provide You The Same Caregiver Everytime
We want you to see a familiar face every visit. Your perfect match Caregiver will learn your routines and favorite foods.
We Aim to Provide You The Same Caregiver Everytime
24/7 Live Calling Support
Speak with a real person in 30 seconds or less every time you call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
24/7 Live Calling Support
Comprehensive Care at Every Age
Our services range from elder care to daily living support for people of all ages. Quality care, regardless of age.
Comprehensive Care at Every Age
