DAILY PERSONAL ACTIVITIES
The assistance with personal activities support type is designed to help people with a disability or chronic condition manage their day-to-day tasks that they need to perform in order to live independently. Assistance with household tasks supports those who find simple chores challenging like washing dishes or maintaining the garden.
These include activities revolving around personal hygiene, or the supervision of personal daily tasks, which support a participant to live as independently as possible at home, and in the community.
Assisted living is an alternative to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities and can be provided through home health aides and direct care staff. These tasks may include dressing and/or grooming, dietary management, grooming of pets, household chores, personal hygiene and socialising and communicating with others.
Supported Independent Living (SIL) provides supported living arrangements for people who are long-term recipients of care and support services.
WHAT WE OFFER
In the NDIS, daily living supports are split into two main categories: Core Supports and Capacity Building Supports. These support categories form an integrated approach to support a participant to have the same choice and control in their lives as a person without a disability.
Core Supports are activities that enable people with disabilities to live as independently as possible in their own homes and communities, for example: preparing meals, shopping for food, managing money and banking, paying bills, using public transport, etc.
Capacity Building Supports are those activities that help people with disabilities gain skills and knowledge that will help them participate better in society; for example: learning how to use computers or the internet; attending group activities; participating in sports programmes; participating in volunteering opportunities, etc.
WE SUPPORT PARTICIPANTS WITH:
- Personal hygiene like showering, bathing, oral hygiene, dressing, grooming;
- Toileting, bladder & bowel management;
- Eating and drinking;
- Attending appointments;
- Use of aids and appliances, hearing and communication devices.