Home sharing won't catch on here, as I think most intelligent Australians have moved on from the good old days of pre WW2 times. Most of the elderly I visit in the community who live with their younger relatives are not happy at all, and indeed elder abuse of the financial kind is rife in some of these homes.

With the current policy of the aged people having to use their own assets to buy their way into aged care facilities, I wonder what would happen to these 'share homes' if the older person physically couldn't stay at home anymore?

The Govt will consider the money put into the share home by the aged person as their 'asset', so unless the other members of the home can pay them out so their money goes to the aged care facility, then the share home will have to be sold!

Unless of course the younger household members can give up work to stay home and care for very physically or mentally disabled older relatives in the share home.
It is not an easy path to take...

I built a granny flat for my mum, & she lived in it for 20 years after dad died. She lived totally independently, apart from not having a car. She used community networks, & only needed us for transport occasionally. It did mean help was close by, & perhaps kept her out of a nursing home for much longer.

Since she has gone, I have had a daughter in it for a year or so, which was only annoying when she wanted to drive around on my lawn or garden. There was some conflict due to the different priorities of the young & old.

My son & his lady are now there. This is more difficult. After years on a yacht, where you may need anything at any time, in the dark, in a gale, I want everything where it belongs at all times. Tomorrow, or next week is too late to put back something you have used.

Thirty somethings have the right to live their life in their own way, just not in my damn home they don't.

Does this lady think I have spent all my life developing things as I want them, to give it all up to suit an immigration program. What a bloody silly idea.

Rhosty, when you look backwards with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, in the cold grey light of dawn, it becomes crystal clear that the land of OZ was happier, healthier & wealthier up until about the 1950s.

1, Keynesian communist e-CON-omics is what got us where we are today.

2, overcrowding during the great depression only occurred among the extremely poor & their numbers were not that high. i have relatives, friends who lived through it & NOBODY in Queensland starved.

3, limited housing supply is caused by communist Keynesians.

4, even if supply of housing was increased the Keynesian communists would allow more communist Chinese to come in & buy more housing. Your children, grand children would not be able to buy any housing unless they are rich.

5, it took a village to raise a child because complete extended families used to live in them, if not in the same house then next door or round the corner.

Suseonline, still supporting the communist matriarchy i see.

1, elder abuse is like DV, another lie of the communist matriarchy, almost all of it is being done by either non family members or feminist daughters.

2, policy on assets of older family members can be changed.

3, read Hasbeen's comment on how positive extended families can be for elders.

4, if more young women trained as nurses then maybe each extended family would have some more nurses of their own.

5, the good old days WERE the good old days & can be again. Feminist communism has 200 years of proven failure behind it. Grow up & get over yourself.

Hasbeen, hear, hear. This lady is another feminist communist pursuing antisocial, anticommunity policies to "destroy the joynt".

Lol Imacentristmoderate, still living in the past I see, and still paranoid about feminists.
There is no point arguing with people like you.