Respite Care
Providing family caregivers with much-needed breaks.
What is Respite Care
Short-Term Accommodation and Respite Care are support for when you may need to spend time away from your home or away from your usual carers and need access to 24 hour care with accommodation. Respite Care and STA are packaged supports and allows for your stay away from home.
This includes your:
- Accommodation
- 24 hr Personal Care Supports
- Foods and drinks
- Activities
How to Access Respite Care
You can use the Core Budget of your NLIS plan to access STA/Respite Care, it does not have to be stated directly in your plan. You should consider discussing this support with your Local Area Coordinator (LAC) or your Support Coordinator and apply directly for this support at your next plan review meeting. If approved the NLIA will usually fund up to 28 days of STA per year and you can use this funding Flexibly. For example you may choose to access it up to 14 days at a time or you can decide to use it for one weekend per month. Regardless of what you choose it is your choice and control.
What Can I Use Respite Care For?
You can access short-term accommodation and respite care if you:
- Need a break from looking after someone?
- Wanting to meet new people?
- Looking to engage in different activities?
- Want to become more socially active
- Looking for opportunities to gain new skills?
Independent? Don’t Need Much Support?
If you are independent and do not need much support, we can make arrangements for you to continue to live independently with as much support as you prefer, so you can enjoy your time away from home whilst continuing to build on your independent living skills!
Interested in Respite Care
If you are interested in accessing respite care with LIS, please contact us directly or fill out the enquiry form and one of our friendly team members will get in touch with you.