Heather Hill Pathways
Heather Hill Pathways is a team of professionals who work together in collaboration with families and their loved ones to ensure that their pathways through later life are a series of smooth and well planned transitions. As a collaboration of professionals in nursing, legal, financial, counselling and mediation, we commonly provide help, advice and assistance in the following areas:
- Identifying and accessing nursing care for your loved one in their home (including government funded or subsidised packages)
- Finding the right nursing home for your loved ones’ based on their individual care needs
- Carer training to empower you to safely look after your elderly loved ones
Financial Planning
- Identifying financially viable accommodation choices
- Assessing options to retain the family home
- Negotiating accommodation bond
- Exploring funding options for paying accommodation bonds
- Structuring finances to optimise Centrelink entitlements
- Considering the timing of Centrelink asset assessment
- Investing funds to provide a predictable cash flow for personal use
- Identifying how to fund daily care fees
- Reviewing how to structure any future intergenerational bequests
Legal
- Enduring powers of attorney
- Advance health directives
- Wills
- The ‘Guardianship’ regime
- Dementia and incapacity
- Gifts and loans to children
Counselling
Managing the emotional strain associated with:
- Carer fatigue
- Transitions into higher levels of care
- Loved ones suffering from dementia and other conditions
Mediation
- Preventing and resolving family disputes
- Fairly sharing care needs amongst siblings
- Family member roles and responsibilities
- Guardianship and power of attorney issues (who, when and for what decisions)
- Discussing housing and living arrangements
Our highly experienced registered nurses, along with many of Australia’s most highly respected aged care lawyers, financial planners, counsellors and mediators will walk you through these and the many other complex questions which will arise when you begin planning your parents and eventually your own future pathways through later life.