Moving to Residential Aged Care (a nursing home)

Help and advice with finding short term (respite) or long term residential aged care including:

• finding a facility that has a vacancy in your local area
• working out the fees and choosing the best fee options
• understanding how to fund the fees & how fees may be reduced
• deciding if you should sell or rent the family home
• funding options if your spouse or carer remains in the home
• setting up a myGov & myAged Care account
• obtaining aged care codes
• doing the application with My Aged Care
• updating Centrelink

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• completing all the paperwork

Downsizing to a smaller home (town house, retirement village etc)

Help and advice with:

• selling your current home
• choosing a trusted real estate agent
• finding the right smaller home to grow old in
• choosing a town house, retirement village, duplex or granny flat.
• making sure you keep some or all of your aged or dva pension
• updating Centrelink / DVA
• understand the sales contract and purchase contract

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• completing all the paperwork

Bring in home care services

Help and advice with finding:

• a government subsidised home care package in your local area
• strategies to reduce the fees you may need to pay
• choosing the rights supports to suit your needs:

       e.g. looking after the garden and yard, medication assistance, help to pay bills,         

              health and home nursing, transport, meal preparation, cleaning etc. 

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• completing all the paperwork