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NSW Aged Care facilities are occupied at a rate of 95% capacity which ensures that entry costs will increase year upon year.

In NSW the average entry price is approximately $250,000 for the moment, in the form of a refundable accommodation bond. However, expert predictions are that aged care providers will need to increase entry level prices of aged care facilities to approximately 75% of the average house prices in the surrounding precinct. For the majority of Sydney this would mean an entry price of approximately $750,000. So much for tough love.

If you're lucky enough to have purchased a home in Sydney years ago, there'll be precious little remaining to leave to your children when you sell it on to purchase your way into a retirement facility. That's if you can find one with vacancies. Typically 70% of your "refundable accommodation bond" is returned, usually without accruing any interest attributable to your estate, when your surviving family could benefit from it.

Whether aged care providers will implement these increases remains open to cynical debate, however, construction costs and land limitations are the apparent driving forces in the Sydney market, so the odds are stacked in favour of significant increases. 

ACFA (the Aged Care Financing Authority) estimate that an additional 86,000 places will be needed in the next 5 years and although this figure includes demands estimated Australia wide, on present forecasts, the industry is most unlikely to meet this future demand with self contained accommodation.

Home Care represents the government's present best strategy for picking up the expected overflow. So over the next 5 years we expect the larger Aged Care providers to include Home Care services and home nursing to clients in their existing homes.

In 2011 the Federal Government implemented its "Livable Housing Design Guidelines" for just this purpose, but punters seem less aware than they ought to be.

If I were a forward thinking future retiree, I'd be contemplating making my current home one that can be adaptable for future use, and as a property investor, Im thinking that demands for such homes will undoubtedly increase. That's when you'll need a competent architect, experienced in accessibility.

 

Gary Finn   

 

Read more about it here: why-is-aged-care-changing

 

 

 

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Attempted to load class "CliDumper" from namespace "Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper". Did you forget a "use" statement for another namespace? (500 Whoops, looks like something went wrong.)

ClassNotFoundError

HTTP 500 Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

Attempted to load class "CliDumper" from namespace "Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper".
Did you forget a "use" statement for another namespace?

Exception

Symfony\Component\ErrorHandler\Error\ ClassNotFoundError

in /home/sydneya1/public_html/libraries/vendor/maximebf/debugbar/src/DebugBar/DataFormatter/DataFormatter.php (line 28)
  1.      * DataFormatter constructor.
  2.      */
  3.     public function __construct()
  4.     {
  5.         $this->cloner = new VarCloner();
  6.         $this->dumper = new CliDumper();
  7.     }
  9.     /**
  10.      * @param $data
  11.      * @return string
DataFormatter->__construct() in /home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/AbstractDataCollector.php (line 80)
  1.      * @return DataFormatter
  2.      */
  3.     public static function getDefaultDataFormatter(): DataFormatter
  4.     {
  5.         if (self::$defaultDataFormatter === null) {
  6.             self::$defaultDataFormatter = new DataFormatter();
  7.         }
  9.         return self::$defaultDataFormatter;
  10.     }
AbstractDataCollector::getDefaultDataFormatter() in /home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/AbstractDataCollector.php (line 65)
  1.      * @return DataFormatter
  2.      */
  3.     public function getDataFormatter(): DataFormatter
  4.     {
  5.         if ($this->dataFormater === null) {
  6.             $this->dataFormater = self::getDefaultDataFormatter();
  7.         }
  9.         return $this->dataFormater;
  10.     }
AbstractDataCollector->getDataFormatter() in /home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/DataCollector/SessionCollector.php (line 87)
  2.                 $value = '***redacted***';
  3.             });
  5.             foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
  6.                 $this->sessionData[$key] = $this->getDataFormatter()->formatVar($value);
  7.             }
  8.         }
  10.         return ['data' => $this->sessionData];
  11.     }
SessionCollector->collect() in /home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/DataCollector/SessionCollector.php (line 58)
  1.     public function __construct($params, $collect = false)
  2.     {
  3.         parent::__construct($params);
  5.         if ($collect) {
  6.             $this->collect();
  7.         }
  8.     }
  10.     /**
  11.      * Called by the DebugBar when data needs to be collected
SessionCollector->__construct(object(Registry), true) in /home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/Extension/Debug.php (line 299)
  1.             if ($this->params->get('request', 1)) {
  2.                 $this->debugBar->addCollector(new RequestDataCollector());
  3.             }
  5.             if ($this->params->get('session', 1)) {
  6.                 $this->debugBar->addCollector(new SessionCollector($this->params, true));
  7.             }
  9.             if ($this->params->get('profile', 1)) {
  10.                 $this->debugBar->addCollector((new ProfileCollector($this->params))->setRequestEndTime($endTime));
  11.             }
in /home/sydneya1/public_html/libraries/vendor/joomla/event/src/Dispatcher.php -> onAfterRespond (line 454)
  1.             foreach ($this->listeners[$event->getName()] as $listener) {
  2.                 if ($event->isStopped()) {
  3.                     return $event;
  4.                 }
  6.                 $listener($event);
  7.             }
  8.         }
  10.         return $event;
  11.     }
in /home/sydneya1/public_html/libraries/vendor/joomla/application/src/AbstractApplication.php -> dispatch (line 99)
  1.             $dispatcher = $this->getDispatcher();
  2.         } catch (\UnexpectedValueException $exception) {
  3.             return null;
  4.         }
  6.         return $dispatcher->dispatch($eventName, $event ?: new ApplicationEvent($eventName, $this));
  7.     }
  9.     /**
  10.      * Method to run the application routines.
  11.      *
AbstractApplication->dispatchEvent('onAfterRespond', object(AfterRespondEvent)) in /home/sydneya1/public_html/libraries/src/Application/CMSApplication.php (line 349)
  2.         // Send the application response.
  3.         $this->respond();
  5.         // Trigger the onAfterRespond event.
  6.         $this->dispatchEvent(
  7.             'onAfterRespond',
  8.             new AfterRespondEvent('onAfterRespond', ['subject' => $this])
  9.         );
  10.     }
CMSApplication->execute() in /home/sydneya1/public_html/includes/app.php (line 58)
  2. // Set the application as global app
  3. \Joomla\CMS\Factory::$application = $app;
  5. // Execute the application.
  6. $app->execute();
require_once('/home/sydneya1/public_html/includes/app.php') in /home/sydneya1/public_html/index.php (line 285)
  1.  * define() is used rather than "const" to not error for PHP 5.2 and lower
  2.  */
  3. define('_JEXEC', 1);
  5. // Run the application - All executable code should be triggered through this file
  6. require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/includes/app.php';

Stack Trace

ClassNotFoundError 
Symfony\Component\ErrorHandler\Error\ClassNotFoundError:
Attempted to load class "CliDumper" from namespace "Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper".
Did you forget a "use" statement for another namespace?

  at /home/sydneya1/public_html/libraries/vendor/maximebf/debugbar/src/DebugBar/DataFormatter/DataFormatter.php:28
  at DebugBar\DataFormatter\DataFormatter->__construct()
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/AbstractDataCollector.php:80)
  at Joomla\Plugin\System\Debug\AbstractDataCollector::getDefaultDataFormatter()
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/AbstractDataCollector.php:65)
  at Joomla\Plugin\System\Debug\AbstractDataCollector->getDataFormatter()
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/DataCollector/SessionCollector.php:87)
  at Joomla\Plugin\System\Debug\DataCollector\SessionCollector->collect()
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/DataCollector/SessionCollector.php:58)
  at Joomla\Plugin\System\Debug\DataCollector\SessionCollector->__construct(object(Registry), true)
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/plugins/system/debug/src/Extension/Debug.php:299)
  at Joomla\Plugin\System\Debug\Extension\Debug->onAfterRespond(object(AfterRespondEvent))
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/libraries/vendor/joomla/event/src/Dispatcher.php:454)
  at Joomla\Event\Dispatcher->dispatch('onAfterRespond', object(AfterRespondEvent))
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/libraries/vendor/joomla/application/src/AbstractApplication.php:99)
  at Joomla\Application\AbstractApplication->dispatchEvent('onAfterRespond', object(AfterRespondEvent))
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/libraries/src/Application/CMSApplication.php:349)
  at Joomla\CMS\Application\CMSApplication->execute()
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/includes/app.php:58)
  at require_once('/home/sydneya1/public_html/includes/app.php')
     (/home/sydneya1/public_html/index.php:285)