Daily life is built from small things — a shower in the morning, a tidy kitchen, a meal that is ready when you need it. For most people, these things happen without a second thought. For many NDIS participants, they represent real daily challenges that, without the right support, can drain energy, create safety risks, and quietly erode quality of life.
Benity Care’s daily living support services are designed to address those challenges directly. We provide practical, respectful, NDIS-funded assistance with personal care and household tasks — the everyday supports that help participants maintain their health, their home, and their independence. Our approach is simple: we are here to help you live your life the way you want to, with as much or as little support as you need.
Daily living support refers to the hands-on assistance participants need to manage the practical tasks of everyday life. Under the NDIS, these supports are funded primarily under Core Supports — Assistance with Daily Life, one of the most flexible and widely used funding categories in the scheme.
Daily living supports are not about taking over a participant’s life — they are about filling the specific gaps that disability creates. The goal is always to enable greater independence, safety, and wellbeing, whether that means completing tasks a participant cannot do themselves, supporting a participant to do more independently over time, or simply ensuring the everyday foundations of a healthy life are reliably in place.
WHY CHOOSE US
Benity Care provides two core daily living support services:
Respectful, consistent assistance with daily hygiene and grooming routines — including showering, oral care, hair care, dressing, continence management, and skin care — delivered with dignity and genuine attentiveness to each participant's preferences and goals.
Daily living support is for NDIS participants whose disability affects their ability to manage aspects of their personal care or household independently and safely. This spans a wide range of disabilities and life circumstances — physical disability affecting mobility or fine motor control, chronic fatigue or pain that makes physical tasks demanding, cognitive or intellectual disability that affects sequencing and organisation, mental health conditions that impact motivation or executive function, and acquired or progressive conditions that have changed what a person can manage on their own.
Daily living support is relevant at every life stage — from young people building independence skills, to working-age adults managing active lives alongside disability, to older participants whose support needs have grown over time. Benity Care tailors the type, frequency, and approach of daily living support to fit each participant’s unique situation.
Benity Care’s approach to daily living support is built on four things: reliability, respect, consistency, and genuine care.
Reliability means our workers show up when they are scheduled, complete what is needed, and communicate proactively if anything changes. For participants who plan their days around their support schedule, reliability is not a nice-to-have — it is essential.
Respect means we treat every participant’s home, body, and preferences as their own. We follow each person’s preferences carefully, ask before assuming, and never impose our own standards on someone else’s space or routine.
Consistency means we invest in long-term worker matching — so participants build trusted relationships with familiar faces rather than adjusting to new people constantly. Consistency makes daily living support feel less like a service and more like genuine human connection.
Genuine care means our workers are interested in the people they support. They notice changes, check in on wellbeing, and approach their role with the warmth and attentiveness that transforms adequate support into excellent support.
One of the NDIS’s core goals is to help participants build capacity and independence over time. Benity Care’s daily living support is designed with that goal in mind. Our workers do not simply do things for participants — they support participants in doing things for themselves, wherever that is a realistic and meaningful goal.
This might look like prompting the steps of a morning routine rather than performing them, supporting a participant to manage their own laundry with adapted techniques and equipment, or gradually reducing assistance in areas where confidence and capability are growing. Every participant’s independence goals are documented in their support plan and actively worked toward.
For participants whose disability means full assistance will always be needed, the goal shifts from independence to quality — ensuring that daily living support feels genuinely caring, is delivered consistently by familiar workers, and leaves participants feeling respected and well looked after every single time.
Showering, bathing, and personal hygiene assistance
Oral care, grooming, hair care, and personal presentation support
Dressing and undressing, including adaptive clothing assistance
Continence management — pad changes and routine support
Skin care, moisturising, and pressure area monitoring
Medication prompting as part of morning and evening routines
Full home cleaning — floors, bathrooms, kitchen, and surfaces
Laundry — washing, drying, folding, ironing, and putting away
Bed making and linen changes
Basic meal preparation and kitchen organisation
Rubbish and recycling management
Light home organisation to maintain a safe living environment
Benity Care’s daily living support services are trusted by participants and families across Melbourne because we get the fundamentals right. We show up reliably. We treat every participant with genuine respect. We match workers carefully and maintain consistency over time. And when something needs to change — a preference, a schedule, a worker — we respond promptly and make it right.
Our support workers are thoroughly screened, trained in person-centred support, safe manual handling, and infection control, and supervised regularly. We take worker quality seriously because we know that the quality of a participant’s daily support shapes the quality of their daily life.
We are also flexible. Daily living needs change — plans are reviewed, circumstances shift, goals evolve. Benity Care adjusts with you, adding or reducing support as needed and ensuring your plan always reflects where you are, not just where you started.
TESTIMONIALS
FAQ’s
Daily living support is primarily funded under Core Supports — Assistance with Daily Life. This is one of the most flexible NDIS funding categories. If you are unsure how much funding you have available for daily living supports, Benity Care can help you read your plan and understand your options.
Yes. Many participants receive both services from Benity Care, and a coordinated approach often works more efficiently. Your support schedule can be designed to incorporate both services in a way that makes practical sense for your daily routine.
Visit frequency depends on your individual needs and available NDIS funding. Some participants receive daily support; others have weekly or fortnightly visits. Benity Care will work with you to design a schedule that genuinely fits your life.
Yes. If increasing your independence in daily living tasks is one of your NDIS goals, Benity Care will build that into your support approach from the start — using coaching and graduated assistance to build your skills and confidence over time.
You will be notified as early as possible, and Benity Care will arrange a suitable replacement — someone familiar with your preferences wherever possible. We take the reliability of daily living support very seriously, and we have backup processes in place to maintain continuity.
Daily living support that is reliable, respectful, and built around your routine — that is what Benity Care delivers. Contact us today for a free consultation. We will take the time to understand your daily life, explain how our services can help, and start building a support plan that makes every day a little easier and a lot better.
