Retirement and Aged Care
We provide advice to people who are thinking of moving to a retirement village or rest home. We also have experience in acting for developers and owners of retirement and aged care facilities.
Are you thinking of moving into a retirement village or rest home, or are you helping someone in your family with this?
The process is very different to buying a house, so it is important to get good legal advice on what this move will mean for you or your loved one. We can explain occupation licences and other documentation in plain terms, making it easy to understand.
Alongside this, we provide advice on other issues relevant to people in retirement, such as buying and selling property, wills and trusts, powers of attorney, succession planning, and health and capacity issues.
If you’re a developer or owner of a retirement village or aged care facility, let our team assist with all the relevant commercial, property and employment matters, including providing advice on specialist issues such as compliance with the Retirement Villages Act.
We provide legal advice on:
- Rest home care and subsidy applications
- Advice on retirement village contracts and occupation licences
- Healthcare issues
- Trusts, wills and estate planning
- Enduring powers of attorney – advice, drafting and operation
- Advice on acting as an attorney
- Capacity issues
- Buying, selling or constructing retirement villages and aged care facilities
- Business structuring and operation
- Compliance with laws and regulations
- Securities Act compliance / exemptions
- Contracts, eg: occupation licences
- Employees – contracts, relationships and disputes
- Healthcare issues
- Risk management
- Complaints
- Disputes and litigation
