Early last year (February 2017) Home Care Packages (HCP) underwent a major reform, giving consumers greater choice and control over their home care package funds.
April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month and Today is World Parkinson’s Day. Description: Parkinson's disease is a progressive, degenerative neurological condition that affects the ...
Since 1992 April has been Stress Awareness Month, designed to promote public awareness of what stress is, what causes it to occur and what can be done about it.
Moving into aged care can be expensive – emotionally and financially. The natural instinct for many couples who both need care is to move together, on the same day.
If you're moving into an aged care facility, you'll be asked to complete a combined income and asset assessment. This is used to ascertain how much, if any, funding ...
Changes to the assets test rules for the age pension that took effect from 1 January 2017 actively discourage middle-income wage earners from saving to be self-sufficient in retirement, ...
In the budget last year the government announced an incentive for people over 65 to downsize their home. The “downsize incentive” is due to start on 1 July this year ...
We are seeing an increasing number of people coming to see us only AFTER they have received the “OMG letter” from Centrelink. What is the “OMG letter”? I hear you say.
The review of the Living Longer Living Better Reforms introduced in 2014 has now been completed with a comprehensive report, including 38 recommendations recently being tabled in Parliament.
Whilst the cost of living for those in retirement has only increased slightly over the past quarter, the continued increase in the costs of food, electricity, health and water ...
