New Way to Stay
Advice and Advocacy for Older Australians
New Way To Stay enables people to turn their goals into reality as they age.
Awarded as a Finalist in the 2020 Future of Ageing Innovation Awards
A Fresh New Approach
Support During Covid-19
New Way to Stay is open for business. Face to face contact has resumed and we will continue to offer clients the option of a meeting via video conferencing. Here is what we are doing.
New Way to Stay is a new generation consultancy business for seniors that provides a rare and streamlined approach to later-life planning and goal implementation.
In collaboration with you, based on your own situation, we design effective strategies that include advice, risk analysis and a personalised vetting and referral service to solution providers for any of the services you need.
Then, once you are on your way towards implementing solutions, we offer ongoing support and advocacy for you and your family, for as long as it takes, or you choose to have us by your side.
Rather than spend hours online, researching and calling around for help, with just one phone call to New Way to Stay you will be on your way to obtaining an effective gateway that will not only focus on you as an individual but will give you access to a late-life plan that will save you stress, time, money and the common burden of risk that is associated with making hasty uninformed decisions in a later-life crisis.
The New Way to Stay gateway includes the following and more:
• Retirement living and downsizing
• Legal advice
• Financial Advice
• Home care – private and package support
• Clinical guidance
• Residential care placement and advice
• Home modification and safety
• Social and lifestyle support
• Aged care government benefit advice
• Counselling and psychological support
• Education/seminars
• Employee benefit packages
No matter what you need, whether it be confidential research, advice, risk analysis, ongoing support and implementation, or vetting of service providers and referrals, you will receive a service that is confidential, unique, varied, flexible and streamlined.
We offer a total project management service to help clients fulfil their aged care goals. We set them up successfully and safely in the environment of their choosing ensuring needs are met clinically, practically, economically and emotionally.
Client Focused
We introduce our clients to well researched experts across a broad range of services.
We work with our clients to establish their goals and objectives through the transition in ageing. We research the options available to them then help them map out solutions. Once agreed we implement the solutions via a network of professional service providers and advisors who we have vetted to ensure high standards are maintained at all times
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Our Team
We are dedicated, compassionate and professional
Louise Mace – Founder and Managing Director
Louise’s career spans more than 35 years including working in senior executive roles within the Health, Aged Care and Biotechnology sectors. This includes a decade of running her own project management consultancy which provided research and strategy to successful Global and Australian organisations.
Les Mace - Director
Les has built a successful career in the financial services industry in Australia over the past 40 years. Working at the forefront of the Australian financial services industry, Les has observed the fast-growing need for better financial solutions in the aged care sector.
Gemma Chilton - Communications Specialist
Gemma has a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) from the University of Technology, Sydney, and has spent over a decade working in media, publishing and marketing. She is passionate about applying her experience as a writer and communicator to New Way To Stay's mission of empowering ageing Australians.
Narelle Page – Human Resource and Employee Benefit Specialist
Narelle has enjoyed a long and successful career in senior HR and recruitment management rolesspanning more than 20 years. Based in Brisbane, Narelle joins the New Way to Stay team as our key advisor and corporate HR Specialist with a focus on supporting the Employee Benefit division of the business.
Wynette Monserrat - Corporate Account Advisor
Wynette has a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Master of Business Administration and has held senior management roles in healthcare for over 30 years. Her experience spans the delivery of community therapies for chronic diseases, advanced wound care treatments and continence management. Wynette’s corporate background in community health and aged care, and her personal experience in caring for a brother with an acquired brain injury, has fuelled a passion for helping older people to live a happy and healthy life.
Heidi Todd - Client Advocate
Heidi brings the New Way to Stay team a rich and varied level of career experience. Along with a BA Hons degree in history, Heidi has enabled many individuals and families to achieve personal goals based on her ability to collaborate and design sustainable solutions to meet the needs of her clients. In more recent years Heidi has enhanced her career by working with a variety of mid-tier and large organisations where her compassionate listening skills have enabled her to successfully facilitate and manage important corporate projects requiring complex internal research. Her ability to identify and understand the drivers which motivate people is well recognised by her peers and customers.
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It’s a difficult truth to know that attitudes around ageism are still so rife in Australia . Much of the world in fact . When you consider how much longer our life expectancies are , it means we now have a far bigger proportion of our overall population being subjected to the negative consequences of illogical stereotyping than ever before . Sadly these attitudes are so inherent in society that we commonly observe destructive self sabotaging attitudes of ageism . Even within our own business for those we are brought in to help and empower to live their best independent lives, while managing risks with a robust plan, we often find the most wonderful well intentioned people desperately just wanting a gentle transition and thoughtful planning process in place . Despite that by the time we arrive , often those hopes have been deeply impacted by fear and reactive actions , triggered by either surrendering too early or waging war with age.
In each case the consequences have often lead to missing out on the full potential of remaining independent and in charge of life choices for as long as possible . On the flip side denial can lead to danger and serious risk.
So , what is age ? It really is after all just a number . Sure ,our health can face more issues in an older body , but does that mean we have to segregate and label each other as ‘old’ with the raft of negative imagery that goes along with that label? If not yet under the numerical category of old , should we be afraid or actually open to embracing all that it means to live a long life.
Ill health and loss of independence can happen at any age. Transitioning circumstances in life can also happen at any age .
I recall my late father who had a group of slightly younger mates he had a weekly lunch with for years and years . That lunch was a highlight of his week. As dad was nearing his 80th birthday, I suggested doing something special with his lunch buddies. He quickly rejected that idea admitting he’d never told them his true age and definitely did not want them to know now. It made me realise how sad self inflicted ageism could be . Even at that stage of my dad’s life , which we all knew (due to serious ill health) his remaining time was in precious short supply. Still , the fear of judgment remained . I dare say an element of ageism and fear of ageing is rooted in the fabric of the societies we grow up in & exists in some form within all of us.
The question for now and as discussed in the following article , is how do we all play our part in creating positive change and move away from ageism ?
'Age isn't the problem, ageism is': Turning 60 in Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-10/ageism-in-australia-turning-60-david-campese-seniors-age-bias/1009...
A nation's hidden shame: Ageism in Australia is our newest epidemic
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The retirement age has increased to 67, but retirement villages have become "over-50s resorts". While mixed messaging does not help, the ugly reality of unabashed ageism is a greater barrier for 60-so...
It is hard to believe we are in April already! What a start to 2022! Meanwhile we continue to be humbled and so very grateful for the rewarding work we get to do each and every day , here at New Way to Stay and to receive words of gratitude like the following really do mean so very much.
"Louise has an exceptional ability to connect with the elderly and an enormous bank of relevant knowledge to draw upon. She connected my parents with a myriad of resources which supported them in dealing with my father's Alzheimer's disease recently.
Louise genuinely cares about her clients and is hugely attentive to their unique needs, which enables her to offer a tailored approach. She was a gift to my entire family at a particularly challenging time."
Amos Szeps
This was without doubt one of the most beautiful families we have had the pleasure of helping. Henri and Mary Ann are absolute role models for showing us how the power of humour and positive thinking can help with tough times. New Way To Stay feel so very privileged to have been called in to help them.🥰
As we are in Dementia Action week, we would like to thank our trusted business partners Autonomy First Lawyers for sharing the following case study. This demonstrates just one of sadly many similar scenarios we are witn clients reaching out to us who are impacted by early onset dementia. It’s so important for all of our mutual clients to know that there are services available to help . The journey need not be as difficult as they might think .
autonomyfirstlawyers.com/2021/09/05/case-study-younger-onset-dementia/
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Supported decision making case study - finding the right residential care for a Younger Onset Dementia sufferer and how Autonomy First helpedOlder Persons Advocacy Network
Older Persons Advocacy Network
opan.org.au
Greater Sydney COVID information for aged care residents and families.Regardless of how much time passes , nor the vastness of the ocean that flows between , nor the chaotic world that consumes us, there is one unwavering truth that will always hold firm. “While we have breath and beyond , a grandmothers love is bound by an unbreakable thread which reaches beyond any limitations that could ever be placed in our way” Anonymous 💓
www.smh.com.au/national/i-m-old-and-happy-about-it-so-don-t-dare-call-me-young-for-my-age-2021080...
I’m old and happy about it, so don’t dare call me young for my age
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Obituary writers, you’re on notice: I don’t need to be photoshopped.