Personal Care
What’s included
Compassion & Empathy
Personal care supports relate to assistance with daily personal activities including assistance with, or supervision of, personal tasks of daily life. For example:
personal hygiene, including showering, bathing, oral hygiene, dressing and grooming;
toileting, bladder and bowel management and menstrual care;
eating and drinking;
attending appointments;
use of aids and appliances, hearing and communication devices;
mobility and transferring, for example moving in and out of bed and on or off the toilet; or
application of splints, basic first aid due to injuries sustained as a result of a participant’s disability.
Personal care supports may be required across a variety of settings. For example, a participant living alone in their own home, living with family or other people, when undertaking social, recreational, education or employment activities or during holidays away from home.
Assistance & Supervision
This support category relates to assisting with or supervising personal tasks of daily life to enable the participant to live as autonomously as possible. These supports are provided individually to participants and can be provided in a range of environments, including the participant’s own home.
Encouragement to Live Autonomously
Our staff care about their participants long-term future. 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.