Aged care articles

How To Avoid Selling Your Home To Pay for Residential Care

If moving into residential care, do you really have to sell your home? What are your choices? Myths and misunderstanding about the rules can add to anxiety and confusion.

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Too wealthy for home care subsidies?

In Australia, if you have a lot of money, you can't get help paying for home care. That's because the government only offers subsidies to people who are judged to be "assets test positive."

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Access in-home aged care when you need help at home

As you age, choosing in-home care or home care services and bringing support into your home can help you to remain independent for longer and improve your quality of life. But understanding how to access in-home care services can be hard to navigate. So, what’s important to know now?

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How to create a personalised age-friendly home

Making your home age-friendly through home modifications may help an elderly person to stay in their home for longer, making the home safer and more accessible.

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How far can a Home Care Package stretch?

Understanding how home care might work for you, needs a reality check around waiting times, adequacy of the care available and costs. Understanding fees and financial implications should be at the top of your research checklist.

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Supporting a person with dementia

Supporting a person with dementia is tough and challenging , but independence and quality of life can still be achieved with the right support and a few changes.

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Help For The Sandwich Generation

We all lead busy lives so juggling family, work and personal responsibilities can be complicated – particularly when people we love need increasing levels of care and support. This article explains the sandwich generation and takes a look at what to consider and where to start when you have older parents.

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Jump hoops for affordable aged care

In Australia, we are lucky that government subsidies can help with the aged care costs, but you will have to jump through hoops to be approved. And you may have long waiting times before the government money becomes available (particularly home care). This article takes a quick look at the three steps for approval.

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Home Sweet Home: Can it Affect Your Age Pension?

We all know the saying, "home sweet home." But did you know that where you call home can actually affect your age pension in Australia? Yep, it's true! If you're considering retiring down under, here's what you need to know about how your living situation can impact your retirement income.

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Why now is a good time to plan for frailty years

Planning for the frailty years or future - and all the challenges it may bring - can help achieve quality of lifestyle as well as quality of care.

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Planning for Residential Aged Care Fees

So for some people, a move into residential aged care may be a better alternative. Careful planning ahead of time can make all the difference and remove a lot of the stress at the time when a decision needs to be made.

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Australians Are Not Saving Enough for Retirement

It would be a great achievement for most people to have enough saved up so that they don't think about retiring in their later years. Unfortunately, saving money for retirement isn't as easy as you may think. Therefore, it is important to plan and prepare for retirement financially.

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The hidden cost of retirement

The common question when it comes to retirement is ‘how much is enough?’. But regardless of how much you have put aside, there’s a significant potential cost in retirement that is often not considered, and if ignored, it can undermine our plans - aged care.

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Take control & avoid elder abuse

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) on 15 June puts a spotlight on issues around elder abuse – not just physical abuse, but also financial abuse.