in Small Business

Issue No. 3 - December/ 2001/january

The Caring Business

Aida Sestili founded Direct Domiciliary Care in 1997. From her experience as a court translator for Italian and Greek litigants and her background in public and community health– she’s a trained nurse – the impulse flowed to offer an advocacy service that would help people culturally disadvantaged people get the most of out the health and legal systems.

“The initial idea was the agency would advocate, because we saw that the language issue was significant for Australia at large,” says Caterina Sestili, who manages the agency.

But the pure cultural advocacy idea soon developed further, when the business plan for Direct Care highlighted a need for in—home care for elderly and disabled people in general.

“In real terms, advocacy has not been a big part of what we have done so far. The work is mainly government—funded under the Domiciliary Care Units (a State Government outreach) or the Brain Injury Federation,” Caterina says. About 15 per ...

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