High Care

High Dependency (Nursing Home)
High care provides 24-hour nursing and personal care with general support for dining, showering, continence management, rehabilitation, medication management, and more.

Residents transferring from low to high care who have paid an accommodation bond can choose to transfer that bond or have the balance refunded and pay a daily accommodation charge.

People entering directly to high care accommodation from the community pay a daily accommodation charge based on their asset level.

In order to facilitate this, a 'Request for an Assets Assessment' form is to be submitted to Centrelink or the Department of Veterans' Affairs. (PDF 182KB)

If an applicant’s assets fall below the Federal Government’s set threshold, no accommodation fee is required (certain rules apply to establishing the asset level).

For more information about the process, please refer to the Department of Health and Ageing. You can also download Aged Care Assessment and Approval Guidelines from the Department of Health and Ageing website.

For information about Accommodation Bonds, please refer to the Department of Health and Ageing's Accommodation Bonds for Residential Aged Care.

Information about assets testing or the arrangements for fees and charges is available on the Aged Care Information Line: 1800 500 853.

Application for Residential Care (PDF 535kb)

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