Countdown: in 12 days Mum will commence 2 weeks of respite care at an aged care facility, thereafter she becomes a permanent resident. My youngest sister has medical & financial Power of Attorney & estimates the best way to come up with the difference between available bank balance & care centre costs will be to sell some of her shares.
Other possibilities are to clean out her house to either rent it out or to sell it. She has too many assets to qualify for the aged pension but at least she does get a war-widows’ pension from the Veterans Affairs department.
I’ve been busily scanning the more important of her photos, thus far I’ve scanned 405 pics totalling 1.9 GB.