Planning for family
You can see what is coming for someone you love. You would rather set up care that keeps them home than wait for a crisis to decide for you.
Grow old in the home you love.
Stay reworks the home you already have into a safe, comfortable place to age, with a qualified carer living onsite. It is real care, where your life already is, so a move into a residential facility never has to be the answer.
Wherever you are starting from
People come to Stay at three different moments. We are built to meet you at any of them.
Planning for yourself
You are well today. You want to sort out the years ahead while the choices are still yours to make.
Needing care now
Something has changed, a fall, a diagnosis, a hospital discharge. You need real care in the house, and you need it quickly.
How Stay works
We turn the home you already have into a safe, comfortable place to grow old, so you can stay where your life already is, with a plan that flexes across the years ahead.
We build your personalised plan
An expert team gets to know your home, your goals, your hopes and your needs, then builds a personalised ageing at home plan, along with the funding you can draw on.
We design and fit out the space
Specialists rework your home into somewhere safe and easy to live in as you age, that still looks and feels like a home rather than a facility.
We settle a carer onsite
A qualified Australian carer moves into a private suite within the home, so support is always close, subsidised by government for those who are eligible.
A personalised plan for the whole chapter, not just today
Your plan is built by an expert team around your goals, hopes and needs, and it flexes as the years progress, with the degree of care growing naturally as your needs do. Many people start with the renovation, making the home safe and easy to live in for the years ahead, then add an onsite carer later, if and when care is needed.
See an example planOne home solves two problems at once
Good care depends on the people who give it, and right now they are being priced out of the places they work. Stay fixes both sides at the same time. You get a carer who knows you and is always close. They get a real home in a place they could never otherwise afford.
Less than 1%
of local rentals are affordable for full-time carers and nurses in many of the areas where people most want to age at home.
Continuity matters. Australian research links a consistent, trusted care relationship to better wellbeing and fewer hospital visits for older people.
- Dyer et al. (2022), BMC Geriatrics. Relational continuity in aged care linked to fewer hospitalisations and emergency department visits.
- Anderson and Blair (2021), Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. NSW study of 247 residents linking care quality to quality of life.
For your next chapter
A qualified carer lives onsite in a private suite, matched to you on your unique needs, the way you live, and mutual dimensions like cultural background and caregiving style. The same trusted person, every day, not a new face at every visit.
For your carer
A free or discounted quality home, a fair wage subsidised by government for those who are eligible, and a single care relationship instead of managing multiple aged care residents in a single shift.
A modern ensuite
A cramped, slippery bathroom with a tub to climb over becomes a level entry walk-in shower, with a bench seat and grab rails that read as towel rails.
A modern open plan kitchen
An intuitive kitchen design, with a lowered bench for seated prep, lever tapware and an oven at easy reach.
Lighting that guides you safely at night
A dark home at night is a real risk. Intelligent pathway lighting wakes as you move, tracing a soft, low lit path so a late night walk is clear at every step.
A combined bathroom and laundry
A tidy but ordinary bathroom and laundry, with a high risk climb up into the bath and shower, becomes one bright, level space, with a walk in bath and shower, intuitive grab rails, and a laundry built in at a waist height that prevents bending and reaching.
A traditional cottage bathroom
A worn cottage bathroom keeps its character and warmth, with a seamless level shower, integrated safety bench, soft edged cabinetry, aged brass rails and a comfort height toilet.
A traditional cottage kitchen
A tired cottage kitchen becomes a warm, open space to cook and live in, with a lowered timber bench for seated prep and matte non-slip floors.
Whole-home level living
A split level beach house becomes a single level home you move through freely, with level floors, wide openings and a step free path out to the view.
The government helps pay. We handle the paperwork.
Personal care at home can be subsidised by government for those who are eligible. Most people have no idea what they qualify for or how to claim it, so we assess your eligibility, handle the paperwork, and make the benefit clear from the start.
$570,000
is the average deposit asked for a single room in residential aged care, on top of the fees that follow. Most families only meet that number in a crisis. When you plan ahead, a fall or a hard week does not have to force a move. Ageing in place gets ahead of the events that usually force the decision, rather than reacting once they happen.
Five years
is roughly the window most people have between the first signs of needing help and the point where staying home is no longer an option. Used early, it is enough time to prepare the home properly and settle a carer in. Left late, it closes fast.
We assess what you can claim
We check your eligibility and work out exactly what the government will subsidise for those who qualify, before any work begins.
We manage the whole application
We prepare and lodge everything and deal with the assessment process on your behalf, from the first assessment to approval, so you are never left alone with the forms.
You see the full picture
You know up front what the government covers, what it means for your care at home, and what remains for you to cover.
More information: Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Ageing at home in NSW, answered
Common questions about ageing in place, in-home care and funding for families across New South Wales.
- What does ageing in place mean?
- Ageing in place means growing older in your own home instead of moving into a residential aged care facility. Stay makes it possible by renovating your home for safety and comfort and bringing qualified care onsite.
- Does Stay operate in New South Wales?
- Yes. Stay works with families across New South Wales, from Sydney to regional areas including the Northern Rivers and Byron Bay. Availability depends on your location, so the best first step is to leave your details and we will confirm what is possible near you.
- How is in-home care funded?
- Personal care at home can be subsidised by government for those who are eligible. Stay helps you understand your eligibility, handles the paperwork, and makes clear what is subsidised and what you pay.
- Can I renovate now and add a carer later?
- Yes. Many people start with the renovation to make the home safe for the years ahead, then add an onsite carer later, if and when care is needed. The home is ready well before it has to be.
- How much does residential aged care cost in comparison?
- The average deposit for a single room in residential aged care is about $570,000, on top of the ongoing fees that follow. Ageing in place is designed to help you avoid that move.
- Who are the carers?
- Stay starts with a personalised ageing at home plan, developed by an expert team around your goals, hopes and needs. The plan flexes as the years progress, with the degree of care and the carer's duties growing naturally as your needs do. Your carer is a qualified Australian carer who lives onsite in a private suite and is matched to you and the way you live, so you see the same trusted person rather than a new face at every visit.
See how Stay could work for your home
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