The Australian government allocates $53,000 pa in a care plan to try to keep aging people in their own home if possible. It works out cheaper than putting them into a nursing home. I am so grateful to live here where there's help because aging is no fun!
A lot of oldies here have to sell their home to get into a nursing home and/or have their aged pensions garnished. Chris and I have absolutely no assets to garnish and the Aged Care Package here is means tested.
We rely on the Aged pension and that is all we have... so we qualified.
We have worked hard in our lifetime, managed our homes, worked outside the home, brought up our children and possibly, even grandchildren. Now we find either that our spouse has passed away or is also suffering the effects of old age and cannot help up either.
There's no shame in asking for help. Even Sacrificial Home Keepers eventually run out of spoons and they are gone forever.
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Glenys, I'm totally with you that there's no shame in asking for help. It's interesting to hear about the government aging program.
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