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As a person with disability, or a parent or carer of a child with disability, it can be tricky to understand what support is available to you through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The NDIS takes a goal-based approach to funding and services, meaning the services available to you or your loved one will vary depending what you need help to achieve.

What are the NDIS support categories?

Of the 15 support categories of the NDIS, the NDIS Core Supports consists of four funding categories that help you or your loved one develop foundational life skills, which help you with daily activities and community participation.

Here’s what the four NDIS Core Supports aim to help you or your loved one achieve.

Assistance with Daily Life

The first of the NDIS core supports, Assistance with daily life aims to empower people with disability to make household decisions, look after their personal care and complete other domestic tasks, including cooking and cleaning.

Accessing Transport

The ‘Transport’ category of the NDIS core supports helps cover transport costs associated with specialised schooling or education programs, reaching your place of employment or participating in other community or recreational activities.

Accessing Consumables

Consumables is a support category that helps cover the cost of everyday items and services, including interpreting and translating services, as well as help with continence and home enteral nutrition.

Assistance with Social and Community Participation

Assistance with social and community participation covers activities or courses that help participants socialise and connect with others. These could include art classes, sports coaching and vacation camps that have capacity building, mentoring, peer support or individual skill development components.

At Nextt, we have a range of services available that help participants build these foundational skills and are covered by the NDIS including: Support Coordination, Core Supports, Capacity Building, Supported Housing and Attendant Care. Our services help individuals develop functional and meaningful skills to increase participation in everyday life. We can help you or your child build self-care, meal preparation and social communication skills – and so much more – from the comfort of your own home.
Get in touch with us today to learn how we can help you.

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An article in a local Greek language publication, Neos Kosmos (http://neoskosmos.com/news/el/node/64755), has highlighted the amazing work that Nextt does for the most vulnerable people in Australia’s ethnic communities.

97-year old Dimosthenis Papantoniou spent 22 days in nursing care before coming to the realisation that he “did not want to die” in a nursing home. His wife is suffering from dementia, and at first he thought he would live in the nursing home with her, though he was in good health, so that was medically unnecessary. He couldn’t handle the conditions, however For many elderly with an ethnic background, it’s a common story; in addition to the unfamiliar setting of a nursing home, these people often feel uncomfortable being outside of their communities and thrust into unfamiliar cultures and practices not of their own.

But Papantoniou needed help. While he was physically capable of continuing to do things that he was familiar with; such as light gardening – he is also from a generation that has left him unable to do many household chores that traditionally the women of the house would handle; he doesn’t understand how to cook, for example.

Papantoniou’s children have also moved away and work, and he no longer has a driving license, restricting his mobility and his ability to frequently visit his wife. And this is where Nextt has been able to help.

As Papantoniou says in the article: “Once a week comes a lady to clean the house, another to cook and one to go shopping. All this is free of charge. My wife gives her a pension in the nursing home and I live and I maintain the house with my own.”

Nextt’s leading service has been able to provide Papantoniou with the ability to remain independent and active, while also covering the areas that he struggles in. This is a service that we are proud to offer elderly people in all ethnic communities across Australia.