What is daily living support?

Daily living support is hands-on, respectful help with everyday tasks, personal care, cooking, household routines and health, provided wherever a person lives. It is funded through the NDIS, and the goal is always to build a person’s own skills and independence, not to take over.

What's included

What daily living support can cover

  • Personal care and support with hygiene and wellbeing
  • Meal planning, cooking and healthy eating
  • Household tasks, cleaning and home routines
  • Support with health, medication and appointments
  • Building everyday skills and independence
  • Support tailored to each person’s goals and pace
Daily living support in practice at MY DSP

Why MY DSP

What makes our daily living support different

  • Builds independence

    We help people do more for themselves over time, support that gently steps back as confidence grows.

  • Respectful, dignified care

    Personal care delivered with warmth and dignity, by people who genuinely care about getting it right.

  • Around real routines

    Support that fits the rhythms of a person’s own day, not a rigid timetable they have to fit into.

  • Consistent support workers

    The same trusted, familiar faces, so routines and relationships can settle and grow.

In practice

What daily living support can look like

  • Morning and evening personal care routines
  • Planning and cooking healthy meals together
  • Keeping on top of cleaning and household tasks
  • Managing medication and getting to appointments
  • Budgeting, shopping and everyday admin
  • Learning new skills to live more independently

Questions & answers

Daily living support: your questions answered

Straight answers to the questions families and coordinators ask about daily living support.

What is daily living support?

Daily living support is hands-on, respectful help with everyday tasks, personal care, cooking, household routines and health, provided in a way that builds a person’s own skills and independence.

How is it different from Supported Independent Living?

Daily living support can be provided wherever someone lives, including in the family home. Supported Independent Living (SIL) is specifically support within a SIL home. Many people receive elements of both.

Is daily living support funded by the NDIS?

Yes, daily living supports are commonly funded in an NDIS plan. We can help you understand how it fits within your plan.

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