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About our team of Aged Care Consultants
Aged Care Advisors is the aged care advice division of Nixon Financial Services, a financial planning firm with a history dating back to 1973. Our team helps individuals and families understand the financial decisions involved in moving into aged care, providing clear, practical advice tailored to their circumstances.
To learn more about the wider firm, visit Nixon Financial Services.
Qualified financial planners
Accredited Aged Care Professionals™
Our three pillars
Knowledge, experience and trust
We recognise the need for clear, accurate, yet simple guidance on Aged Care funding issues as the key benefit that we can provide to new Aged Care entrants and their families. Our business is underpinned by three pillars.
Knowledge
Qualified financial planners and Accredited Aged Care Professionals™ who work with the aged care funding rules every day.
Experience
The aged care advice division of Nixon Financial Services, a financial planning firm with a history dating back to 1973.
Trust
Clear, practical advice tailored to your circumstances and explained in plain language, so your family can decide with confidence.
We can help, wherever you may be in Australia
Many of our clients are a great distance from where we are based and that is never a problem. The rules for entry to permanent aged care apply exactly the same all over Australia, and modern technology allows us to make contact with our clients and provide our advice solutions in the way that suits you.
Our team
Meet the team who will help you
Qualified financial planners and Accredited Aged Care Professionals™ who help families make sense of the move into permanent aged care.
Leigh Jenkins, Grad DipFP
Senior Financial Adviser
Accredited Aged Care Professional™
Leigh joined Nixon Financial Services in January 2025 after a 25-year career in a wide range of financial advisory roles. Leigh brings her warmth and empathy to her work in the Financial and Aged Care advice space.
Rod Harper, MFinPlan
Financial Adviser
Rod joined Nixon Financial Services after 10 years of broad experience in personal advice to clients. He holds a qualification as a Master of Financial Planning through Kaplan Professional, marking him as an adviser of depth and skill. He studied the advice regime of aged care clients in his Master’s course and now includes Aged Care advice in his skill set.
Judy Mackenzie
Accredited Aged Care Professional™
Judy Mackenzie provides essential back-office support to Bob, Leigh and Rod by providing a high level of understanding and expertise in preparing model solutions to exactly fit our clients’ needs.
Judy holds the Accredited Aged Care Professional designation and her knowledge is invaluable to our team members and clients.
We can help you make Aged Care fit within your means
Talk to an adviser about your family’s situation. We’ll explain your options and where to begin.
Our approach
How we work with your family
We strive to help people of all levels of financial status
From those with low means, right through to those with substantial wealth, to enter permanent aged care of their choice using the resources available, with the minimum impact on immediate and ongoing costs, and aim for a positive outcome on the future estate value.
We know that your first priority is the comfort and ongoing care of your loved one
We also know that you have an emotion-driven view of the time that you would like to share with your loved one as they reside in permanent aged care.
We respect your emotional position
But we believe that we are able to add an unemotional dimension to your scenario that is of great benefit to the overall future of the family as a group. We look at the financial numbers and the relevant age, health and attitude issues of the intended resident as we map out a financial plan for their situation. Everyone is different.