You check your grocery receipt. You check your electricity bill.
When did you last check your home care bill?
We all want good value for our money. We compare prices and keep an eye on everyday expenses. But when it comes to home care, it’s easy to assume the rates we’re paying are simply what care costs.
Taking a closer look could make a real difference.
Your Own Way Australia is encouraging older Australians and their families to check what they’re paying and discover whether their care funding could be doing more.
As a local not-for-profit provider, Your Own Way focuses on delivering quality, personalised support while helping older Australians get better value from their funding.
The average hourly rate for basic in-home aged care domestic cleaning by local providers has recently risen to around $120 an hour.
Your Own Way offers the same service for $90 per hour.
That’s $30 less for every hour of comparable care.
For example, 10 hours of support at $120 an hour costs $1200.
At $90 an hour, it costs $900 – leaving $300 in your care budget, potentially enough for more support.
That’s better bang for your care dollar.
The example compares hourly service costs only.
Individual savings and additional support will depend on your services, funding arrangements and any applicable charges.
The $120 figure comes from Your Own Way’s regional pricing review in May 2026, which identified it as the approximate local market average for basic in-home aged care domestic cleaning services.
More than just care at home Getting better value isn’t only about hourly rates. It’s about what your funding can help you do.
Your Own Way also offers frozen meals at no contribution, with options ranging from old favourites and comforting classics through to a selection of curries and other tasty choices.
So whether you need a little extra help around the house, support to stay connected with your community, or convenient meals ready for those days when cooking feels like a chore, your care can be tailored around the life you want to live.
See what your funding could do. You don’t have to work through all the numbers yourself.
Your Own Way offers a free in-home assessment and care funding review to look at the services you receive, what you’re paying and whether there’s an opportunity to get more support from your available funding.
It starts with a simple conversation.
You might find your funding can do more than you thought.
Call Your Own Way Australia on 1800 577 007 to book your free in-home care funding review.
More care for your dollar. More support to live life your own way.
