Value of aged care advice.
Some things are too important
to do on your own.
How we can help with aged care advice.
Preparing the way for yourself or a loved one to enter residential aged care can be a difficult and stressful task. But you don’t have to face it alone. We can guide you through the process, providing aged care personal advice and support to create effective financial solutions for your family.
Here are some common scenarios that we can help with:
Dad needs care but Mum is fine to stay where she is. How do you afford aged care for Dad without selling the house out from under your Mum?
Mum needs help but she is determined to stay in her own home. How do you get her the help she needs at home and how does she afford it?
You’re getting to the point where you can’t look after your spouse any longer. You’re a smart person but there’s just so much information to try to digest, and your friends all seem to be telling you different things. How do you get to the bottom of exactly what your options are and what these options cost?
It’s clear that Mum can’t go home from hospital but you and your siblings can’t agree on the best course of action. Everyone is stressed, tired and emotional. How do you move through the deadlock (quickly!) and come up with a plan?
Dad was living at home alone before the move into residential care – now you need to decide what to do with his home. But how do these decisions affect his care costs and his age pension?
Dad has dementia. He made a will years ago. How do you honour what he wanted but still afford good quality care for him?
Why aged care personal advice is so important.
Making an informed decision about aged care is incredibly important. Getting it wrong, or not seeing the whole picture, can have far-reaching consequences, not only for the person needing care, but for the whole family.
When aged care decisions go badly, the stress can lead to family conflicts, fuelled by the Three G’s of aged care ® – grief, guilt and greed.
But not all advice is good advice. Aged care advice is a specialist area. The rules change constantly, as do the available strategies. Before accepting aged care personal advice, ask to see the credentials of the adviser and make sure they are an expert. Ask if they are an Accredited Aged Care Professional™ or Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) Aged Care Specialist™. You don’t need the extra stress of wondering if you’ve received quality advice! We can help to remove this worry as our advisers all hold these designations.
