Daily Living Support with daily life tasks to enable individuals to live as – autonomously as possible. Communication Enables an individual to communicate their requirements – and understand information to follow or engage in essential activities. Wellbeing Individual is engaged in valued roles through participation in – community, vocational and/or educational activities, and/or employment. Having a break Family/carer relationships are maintained and – strengthened. Support planning Service responses at times of intense change and – significant transition are appropriate, goal directed and well-coordinated. Behaviour support and specialist care Individuals and others are free from – harm and an support needs are met. individual’s Therapy and specific support Improved or maintained functional capacity to – enable an individual to independently undertake practical activities. Where a person is engaged with a Local Coordinator and has an individual plan, their assessment and equipment prescription, including consumables, will be coordinated by the Local Coordinator. The Local Coordinator will facilitate an access to individual’s individual’s existing services and schemes available in their region. An individual may have service strategies that fall under more than one cluster in their individual plan. For example, an individual may have an accommodation strategy from Cluster 1, a therapy strategy from Cluster 8 and recreation as a strategy from Cluster 4. To note, Cluster 1 and Cluster 2 are mutually exclusive as the activities of daily living are included in an accommodation strategy. individual’s Clusters 1-7 To be approved, services identified in an individual plan must be within the relevant support cluster Some service costs may be higher or lower than the price(s) identified ‘price range’. in the support cluster, such as varying rates over weekdays and weekends, but the overall (composite) rate should be the average and fall within the price range. Individuals and families can negotiate shared management arrangements with their support provider(s). Such arrangements must fall within the support cluster price ranges. Cluster 8 - Therapy and specific support Therapy supports are therapeutic interventions by allied health professionals that assist an individual to achieve their goals. These interventions are non-acute interventions and would not be expected to be provided by mainstream acute or community Department of Health or Mental Health Services. Services identified in an individual plan will be in line with what is considered as reasonable and necessary. Therapeutic intervention is provided by a range of professionals (e.g. occupational therapists, psychologists, clinical psychologists, orthoptists, podiatrists and dieticians) and includes prescription of equipment, home modifications and orthotics.
Daily Living – Support with daily life tasks to enable individuals to live as autonomously as possible. Communication – Enables an individual to communicate their requirements and understand information to follow or engage in essential activities. Wellbeing – Individual is engaged in valued roles through participation in community, vocational and/or educational activities, and/or employment. Having a break – Family/carer relationships are maintained and strengthened. Support planning – Service responses at times of intense change and significant transition are appropriate, goal directed and well-coordinated. Behaviour support and specialist care – Individuals and others are free from harm and an individual’s support needs are met. Therapy and specific support – Improved or maintained functional capacity to enable an individual to independently undertake practical activities. Where a person is engaged with a Local Coordinator and has an individual plan, their assessment and equipment prescription, including consumables, will be coordinated by the individual’s Local Coordinator. The Local Coordinator will facilitate an individual’s access to existing services and schemes available in their region. An individual may have service strategies that fall under more than one cluster in their individual plan. For example, an individual may have an accommodation strategy from Cluster 1, a therapy strategy from Cluster 8 and recreation as a strategy from Cluster 4. To note, Cluster 1 and Cluster 2 are mutually exclusive as the activities of daily living are included in an individual’s accommodation strategy. Clusters 1-7 To be approved, services identified in an individual plan must be within the relevant support cluster ‘price range’. Some service costs may be higher or lower than the price(s) identified in the support cluster, such as varying rates over weekdays and weekends, but the overall (composite) rate should be the average and fall within the price range. Individuals and families can negotiate shared management arrangements with their support provider(s). Such arrangements must fall within the support cluster price ranges. Cluster 8 - Therapy and specific support Therapy supports are therapeutic interventions by allied health professionals that assist an individual to achieve their goals. These interventions are non-acute interventions and would not be expected to be provided by mainstream acute or community Department of Health or Mental Health Services. Services identified in an individual plan will be in line with what is considered as reasonable and necessary. Therapeutic intervention is provided by a range of professionals (e.g. occupational therapists, psychologists, clinical psychologists, orthoptists, podiatrists and dieticians) and includes prescription of equipment, home modifications and orthotics.
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