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Supported Independent Living

Live Independently with Expert Support

Home Care Experts believes every person deserves the opportunity to live independently. Through personalised support, we help you build the skills you need for greater independence and to live the life you choose.

How Home Care Experts Supports Independent Living

Supported Independent Living (SIL) helps you live more independently in the place you call home by providing the personalised support you need to thrive. From assistance with everyday routines, personal care, household tasks, and overnight support to developing daily living skills and achieving your goals, we provide tailored support that helps you live safely, build confidence, and enjoy the freedom to live life your way.

At Home Care Experts, we work alongside you to understand the support you need and tailor it around your lifestyle, goals, and preferences. We carefully match you with the right support team and create a personalised support plan that adapts with your needs and aspirations. With our experienced team, person-centred approach, and commitment to your success, you'll continue to build the skills, confidence, and independence needed to achieve your goals.

Everything we do is centred around you to build skills, achieve your goals, and live with greater independence, choice, and control every day.

Registered Nurses

Clinical expertise guides every aspect of care, with Registered and Enrolled Nurses overseeing support plans, medication management, and complex health needs.

Specialist Training

Our signature Complex Care Training Model (CCTM) ensures our support workers are adequately equipped to support participants with high-care needs.

Preferred by Healthcare Professionals

Trusted by Reputed Hospitals, Health and Community Professionals.

Experts in 24/7 Support

Our proven operational capacity allows us to manage complex, round-the-clock schedules with absolute reliability.

Comprehensive Supported Independent Living Support

We provide flexible support tailored to your specific goals, needs, and vision for independent living.

Daily Living Support

Assistance with household tasks, meal preparation, cleaning, laundry, and daily routines as needed.

Meal planning and preparation, shopping assistance, cleaning support, laundry help, routine management

Personal Care & Hygiene

Support with showering, toileting, dressing, grooming, and personal hygiene in your own home.

Shower assistance, toileting support, dressing help, grooming, oral care, dignity-focused approach

Medication Management

Support with medications including reminders, administration, monitoring, and medical team coordination.

Medication reminders, administration support, side effect monitoring, prescriber liaison, record keeping

Community Participation & Social Inclusion

Support accessing community activities, social opportunities, employment, education, and meaningful participation.

Transport assistance, activity planning, social support, confidence building, community connection

Goal Planning & Achievement

Working with you to identify goals, develop plans, and provide support to achieve what matters to you.

Goal identification, action planning, progress tracking, achievement celebration, ongoing adaptation

Health & Wellness Support

Support managing health conditions, attending medical appointments, and maintaining wellbeing.

Appointment support, health monitoring, wellness activities, GP liaison, health education

Mobility & Physical Support

Assistance with movement, transfers, stairs, walking, and safe physical management of mobility needs.

Transfer assistance, mobility support, fall prevention, stairs management, safe positioning

Money & Financial Support

Support with budgeting, bill payment, shopping, financial decisions, and money management.

Budget support, bill payment assistance, shopping support, financial decision support, money management training

Communication Support

Support for people with communication difficulties including AAC device support and alternative strategies.

AAC device support, communication environment setup, visual systems, communication partner training

Confidence & Independence Building

Active support to build skills, confidence, and independence in areas you want to develop.

Skill development, confidence building, independence practice, encouragement, positive reinforcement

Life Skills & Education

Support learning practical skills including cooking, cleaning, budgeting, safety, and independence skills.

Cooking classes, cleaning skills, money management education, safety skills, independence training

Emotional & Mental Health Support

Emotional support, anxiety management, depression support, and mental wellbeing as part of daily support.

Emotional support, anxiety support, wellbeing check-ins, counselling referral, crisis support

Family & Carer Liaison

Communication with family and informal carers to keep everyone informed and working together.

Family communication, carer consultation, progress sharing, support coordination, relationship building

Complex Care Management

Specialist support for people with complex medical, behavioural, or support needs requiring integrated care.

Complex care coordination, medical management, behavioural support, safety management, crisis response

Housing & Tenancy Support

Support with living in your home including maintenance coordination, utility management, and tenancy support.

Home maintenance support, utility management, tenancy liaison, housing issue resolution

Self-Directed & Choice Support

Support making decisions, exercising choice, and directing your own support to suit your preferences.

Decision support, choice facilitation, preference respect, self-direction support, autonomy building

True Supported Independent Living

True SIL is not about removing support. It is about providing exactly the right support so you can live independently in your own home. It is about respecting your choices, supporting your goals, and enabling you to do as much as you can for yourself while having us there when you need us.

Supported Independent Living for People With Disability

We support people with a wide range of disabilities to live independently in their own homes with the support they need.

Physical Disability

Mobility limitations, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis requiring daily support

Intellectual Disability

Intellectual disability requiring daily living support, decision support, and independence building

Acquired Brain Injury

Support managing cognitive changes, rebuilding independence, and community reintegration

Mental Health & Dual Diagnosis

Mental health conditions alongside disability with integrated support and crisis protocols

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Support managing sensory needs, communication, routines, and community participation

Chronic & Complex Health Conditions

Support living independently with chronic conditions, medical complexity, or ongoing health needs

Sensory Disability

Deaf, blind, or deaf-blind individuals requiring specialist communication and mobility support

Multiple Disabilities

People with multiple complex support needs requiring integrated, coordinated daily living support

Why Choose Us for Supported Independent Living

1

Person-Centred Approach

Your goals, preferences, and vision drive our support, not our assumptions or standard approaches.

2

Flexible & Responsive

Support that fits your life and adapts as your needs change, available when you need it.

3

Independence Focus

We actively support you toward independence and greater capability, not creating dependence.

4

Skilled & Trained Team

Our team understand disability, community living, and how to provide support that enables.

5

Choice & Control

Your choices are respected and supported, even when different from our preferences.

6

Relationship-Based

We invest in genuine relationships and understanding you as a person, not just a support case.

Let Us Support Your Independent Living

If you are looking for Supported Independent Living support that genuinely enables independence and respects your choices, let us talk about what that could look like for you.

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters on which we work and live. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.