How do aged care room payments work?
Compare paying a room price as a lump sum, a daily payment or a mix.
Sound familiar?
- A room price you don’t understand
- Whether to sell the family home
- How it affects the Age Pension
- Brothers and sisters who need to agree
Start here
How we help
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15-minute call
A friendly chat about where you are and whether we can help
Cost: [PLACEHOLDER: confirm the 15-minute call is free]
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Aged care advice
Advice on paying for care, Centrelink and keeping or selling the home
Cost: [PLACEHOLDER: Aged care advice fee range]
Advice that often helps
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Aged care advice
Clearer decisions when they often need to be made quickly.
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Estate planning and wealth transfer
Making sure what you’ve built carries on as you intend.
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Retirement planning
Retirement should be about freedom, not uncertainty.
A client scenario
Illustrative example only. Names and details are made up and this is not a guarantee of any outcome.
Two sisters helping their 86-year-old father move into care
- The situation
- They needed to decide quickly how to pay for his room.
- What we looked at
- We compared paying the room price as a lump sum, a daily payment or a mix, and looked at the home and Centrelink.
- The outcome
- The family came away with one clear plan.
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Not sure where to start?
A 15-minute call, by phone or video, is the easiest first step. We’ll listen, answer your questions and tell you honestly whether we can help. The first meeting can be in person at our Subiaco office, or by phone or video.