Services

Daily Personal Activities

Assistance with Self Care Activities

These support items provide a participant with assistance with, or supervision of, personal tasks of daily life to develop skills of the participant to live as autonomously as possible.

Assistance with Personal Domestic Activities

This support item assists a participant to undertake or develop skills to maintain their home environment where the participant owns their own home or has sole or substantial responsibility for its maintenance. Includes assisting participant to do basic house and yard work.

Assistance with Household Tasks

These support items enable participants to maintain their home environment. This may involve undertaking essential household tasks that the participant is not able to undertake.

Assistance with Social, Economic and Community Participation

This support category relates to assisting with or supervising a participant to engage in community, social, recreational or economic activities. These supports can be provided in a range of environments, such as in the community or a Centre.

Assistance to Access Community, Social and Recreational Activities

Participation in Community, Social and Civic Activities

These support items enable a participant to engage in community, social and recreational activities.

Short Term Accommodation and Assistance (including the provision of respite care)

Standard Support Items

These support items provide integrated support for self-care, accommodation, food and activities in a Centre or group residence for short periods. They recognise that, from time to time, participants may require temporary comprehensive supports that are different from their usual arrangements. These are non-typical days and may include Short Term Accommodation (STA) in a group-based facility. They may also include a period of respite, which aims to support ongoing caring arrangements between participants and their carers. STA/respite allows the opportunity for the participant to be supported by someone else whilst providing their carer with short term breaks from their usual caring responsibilities.

The support items include all expenses in a 24-hour period including assistance with self-care or community access activities, accommodation, food and negotiated activities. Typically, this type of support would be used for short periods of up to 14 days at a time (exceptions may be made). For longer-term arrangements, other options are likely to be more appropriate (e.g. Supported Independent Living or Medium Term Accommodation).