aged care

Financial planning

Are advisers able to satisfy client needs for aged care?

There is a strong demand for aged care advice, according to a recent Australia Securities and Investments survey tracking consumer demands, calling into question if advis...

Features

The Age of Care

Saving for retirement is important, but how those savings are implemented into planning and covering future residences is an important part of any retirement plan, Chris ...

Financial planning

Australians should manage their aged care needs

Going into aged care is not a choice for many Australians but something that is forced onto them, according to HLB Mann Judd....

Superannuation

‘For profit’ funds deserve to remain in superannuation

The chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, Dr Martin Fahey has argued that there are good reasons for ‘for profit’ superannuation funds ...

Expert Analysis

Home Care an option for few

With aged care a key policy issue for providers and the Government alike at the moment, Troy Smith looks at the intricacies of applying and getting approved for home care...

Tools & guides

Accommodation payment strategies

Funding aged care is one of the biggest obstacles advisers’ older clients may face. Sean Howard outlines strategies that may help ease the burden....

Financial planning

Aged care advisers need to consider legislative change

As changes to superannuation contribution rules come into effect, advisers with older clients should be aware of the strategy options these and other legislative changes ...

Features

Planning for aged care

As Australians continue to live longer, the need for aged care continues to grow. Hannah Wootton looks at what advice financial planners can offer clients on aged care, w...

Financial planning

Planners fall short in aged care provision

Despite financial planners saying for years that they were planning to increase their provision of aged care advice, they are still struggling to do so, according to Inve...

Financial planning

Mentor launches aged care specialist adviser designation

Mentor Education has launched an Aged & Disability Care Specialist Adviser designation to meet the challenges posed by growth in Australia’s ageing and disabled populatio...

Financial planning

Urgent funding needed for residential aged care

Residential aged care facilities need urgent Government funding as new data shows 41 per cent of providers reported a loss at December 2017, with a further 56 per cent ex...

Tools & guides

The current advice landscape for aged care

Michael McLean looks at the technicalities of aged care, how to advise clients in need of it and why demand for it is growing....

Superannuation

Industry funds look to aged care

A roundtable exercise involving Industry Super Australia and the Council of the Ageing has identified a role for industry funds in the aged care arena....