HAAG engaged accounting firm Ernst & Young to provide a cost benefit analysis of the Home at Last Service (HAL). The report shows that by connecting older people with safe, stable, long term
housing the HAL delivers $2.4 million in economic value each year. This value is provided through avoided societal costs including premature entry to aged care, crisis housing and health system costs, and improved wellbeing outcomes. This equates to a Benefit to Cost Ratio of 2.3, meaning that for every dollar spent on the HAL service, it generates at least $2.30 in societal value.
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."