Editorial guides
Practical articles, checklists and explanations built around Italian aged care homes, urgent placement, waiting lists and home-care decisions.
Featured guide
The real gate is not a queue — it is the assessment and the paperwork behind it. How ACAT approval, means testing and hospital discharge decide who gets a room, and what actually moves things faster.
From 1 November 2025 the Support at Home program replaced Home Care Packages. It changes how home care is funded, how contributions are calculated by service type, and how to move up levels. Here is what families need to know.
The real differences in care, cost and how you get in — so you don’t overpay or choose too little care.
Support at Home, respite, then residential care — and the question every family asks too late: when is it time? The honest signals, the Specialist Dementia Care Program for complex behaviours, and why waiting for certainty costs the most.
What Support at Home covers, how the funding levels work, and the point at which residential aged care becomes the safer choice.
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The real gate is not a queue — it is the assessment and the paperwork behind it. How ACAT approval, means testing and hospital discharge decide who gets a room, and what actually moves things faster.
How the former home is treated in the aged care means assessment and the pension, when to sell versus rent versus keep, and how the RAD decision interacts with the house.
How the new Support at Home program works, what it funds, when home care stops being enough, and how families decide between staying home and moving into residential care.
Funded residential respite days, what it costs, booking in practice, emergency respite when a carer collapses, and using respite as a trial run for permanent care.
