From home support to residential care – how to navigate the aged-care maze for ageing parents

Trying to get an ageing parent into care can feel like trying to land a plane in a storm while also looking after kids in the back row. This is the reality for the “sandwich generation”: adults who are supporting ageing parents while raising their own children. The pressure becomes intense when a parent has a sudden health crisis and decisions have to be made quickly. In that moment, adult children are pushed into an unfamiliar, complex and expensive aged care system, often with very little…