{"id":1241,"date":"2018-08-13T06:17:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T06:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/?p=763"},"modified":"2018-08-13T06:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T06:17:52","slug":"support-in-aged-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/2018\/08\/13\/support-in-aged-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Support in Aged Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>As at 31 December 2017, there were 104,602 people waiting for a home care support package. A staggering 26.70% had been waiting for more than 12 months, although many had a lower care package in the interim.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fsparticlehub.com\/2018\/08\/01\/support-in-aged-care\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>How do you increase your chances of receiving the support you need to stay in your home?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrange to have an Aged Care Assessment to assess eligibility.<\/li>\n<li>Research approved home care support providers in your area, what they offer and the costs.<\/li>\n<li>Once approved, work with the home support team to develop a package of services you require and work out all the costs you will pay, and what may be subsidised by the government.<\/li>\n<li>Sign the home care agreements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, all of this is much easier the help of a financial adviser who specialises in aged care.<\/p>\n<h6><em><a href=\"https:\/\/fsparticlehub.com\/2018\/08\/01\/support-in-aged-care\/#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0Dept. of Health: Home Care Packages Program Data Report 2nd Quarter 2017-18. Figures correct as at 30 September 2017.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As at 31 December 2017, there were 104,602 people waiting for a home care support package. A staggering 26.70% had been waiting for more than 12 months, although many had a lower care package in the interim.\u00a0[1] How do you increase your chances of receiving the support you need to stay in your home? Arrange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,71],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aged-care","tag-aged-care","tag-home-care"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedagedcare.com.au\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}