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3rd Jan 2010


Aged Care Planning, Placement and Accommodation Bond Negotiation Specialists

Our placement team will ...

•Provide independent and unbiased advice about high care nursing homes, low care hostels, dementia specific care, assisted living apartments and supported residential options.

• Explain the strengths and features of individual facilities so that you can make valid comparisons and more informed decisions.

• Match the appropriate care and accommodation to your family needs ensuring care level, location preferences, financial situation and social aspects are met.

• Arrange tours of facilities, including transport if needed.

• Complete the Request for Asset Assessment to Centrelink or DVA.

• Complete and lodge placement application paperwork.

• Monitor and receive fast notification and response to vacancies.

• Negotiate the accommodation bond and related care fees to achieve the optimal financial arrangement for your family.

• Provide an accredited travel nurse for interstate moves.

• Provide advocacy and support during the settling in period.

Selecting an aged care home ...

If selecting the right aged care home simply involved just browsing an online aged care directory or reading glossy brochures ! Common sense tell us otherwise.

The truth is that a complete assessment of quality care, accommodation, and lifestyle services provided by any aged care home requires proper research and time-consuming tasks that must go well beyond looking at selected images and marketing content provided by aged care providers.

Making sure that you make the best decision can sometimes be overwhelming. What is the quality of care provided? Are the care staff only "task orientated" or do they go that extra step to ensure that residents enjoy a quality experience ?Are there worthwhile activity programs established? Is the aged care home within the family budget? Do you take a vacancy just because it is there - or will you regret the hasty decision?

There are a large number of factors to consider, so choosing the right aged care home for your family can become a daunting task for a beginner.

Our Experience

Aged Care Connect has been actively involved with helping families with aged care since 2002. There is no substitute for this experience and deep knowledge, gained from working with families going through the same issues that you face today.

Along our journey, we have been careful to collect useful information and insights into all aspects of aged care placement.

If you're totally at a loss as to where or how to begin your search, contact us and we can share this useful advice with you. It makes us feel great too; our team is built upon the utmost compassion and empathy for the family situation during this emotional time.

Knowing that your loved one resides in a caring, calm and tranquil environment will definately give you peace of mind.

At the very least, we hope you explore our website and find some really useful information that has a direct and positive influence in assisting you in finding the appropriate residential care for your loved one.

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What our placement clients say about our service ...

Many thanks. It is a outstanding result and I am more than happy to recommend your services as outstanding. In fact I shall take the liberty to recommend you to my personal financial adviser who has clients in similar situation. Mr. W (Glen Iris) after successful negotiation of a bond (27 Nov 2009)
RSL (Vic) thank you very much for the professional manner in which placement services were provided to Mr. E. Mr. Jeff Jackson OAM (28 August 09)
Mum has settled very well. We just wanted to say thank you for all your help. You saved us having a lot of sleepless nights. Jan and Pat (23 July 09)
You did a great job - having people who know the business acting for us made a world of difference. Martin K.(27 May 09)
Patricia, Noel, Colleen and myself are very grateful of your assistance in placement of Mrs J. in an ideal home and location. Please accept our gratitude from the family. Alan J. (28 Oct 08)
Many thanks for making a potentially difficult time a positive experience for all of us. Sue and Steve (8 Jan 08)

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