Video Transcript - Home Care, Retirement Villages and Aged Care
Home care, retirement villages and aged care homes (nursing homes) – how do they fit in? Home care is for when you are struggling to cope at home. Qualified people will come in and help you with simple things like cleaning, changing a light bulb, taking you to the shops or the doctor, bathing you, all the way up to full nursing services. The idea is that you can stay in your own home longer. The government will pay all or part of the costs for home care depending on an assessment of your needs and your ability to pay.
- Retirement villages, or retirement communities, come in several forms. There is:
- retirement villages,
- home care villages,
- rental villages,
- manufactured home estates, also called land lease communities
- and Over 55 lifestyle estates.
Their appeal is that they have been designed to support you as you age, physically and financially. The homes are physically safer to live in, they have managers to keep an eye out for you and they offer a sense of community. Research shows people actually live longer in a retirement community. But there is little or no government money to support moving to these communities. Aged care homes (nursing homes) - for most of us moving into aged care is a long term move – in fact for the rest of our lives. You are likely to be really struggling at home and needing high levels of physical, medical or mental support. The government heavily subsidises or pays for all your aged care, depending on your financial situation. All the information and the links to all services are here on agedcare101.
