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INDIVIDUALISED LIVING OPTIONS

What Is An Individualized Living Option (ILO) In The NDIS?

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The NDIS has funded supports for Individualized Living Options (ILOs) to help participants reassess and realize different living options. The ILO allows participants to choose where they want to live, and with who and ensure that required supports are in place to meet their requirements. Although the funding does not provide the house or help with rent or mortgage, it is there to enable freedom and choice of living. ILO offers a platform for understanding the participant’s life vision and developing plans and supports to help them meet it.

How To Structure Your Individualised Living Options

You can structure your ILO using formal and informal supports like family, different networks and friends. The NDIS can offer funding for the formal supports approved in your NDIS plan when informal supports are unable to help sufficiently.

The NDIS Individualised Living Options support is added to your plan in two main stages;

  • Exploring and designing the individualized living options you need and want. You must decide where you want to live, what support you need, with whom you want to live, and the support provider you want.
  • The ILO support implementation support will depend on where and how you want to live and the support you require. You can change your ILO supports if you need any adjustments, however, overall the supports will provide stability, safety and flexibility for more comfortable living.

The Individualised Living Options supports don’t include the supports a participant will need for activities outside their home. For instance, supports for studying, working, going out or in the community. If needed, the NDIS will include these supports in other parts of your plan. Furthermore, you might need separate support for additional living and home supports like home modifications.

Supports Included In An Individualised Living Options NDIS Plan

  • Training for your caregivers or people who support you
  • Support to set up and manage your home
  • On-call individuals, you can reach to help you when in need
  • Personal care
  • Support to make decisions about where you want to live and the supports you need to help you
  • Support to build independent living
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The Benefits Of Individualized Living Options.

ILO support can be crucial for any participant looking to want to live more independently. The best part is that the NDIS can change the package as your needs evolve to ensure you have the support required and is more flexible than Supported Independent Living, which is funding to cater for group housing. Therefore, ILO can be beneficial in several ways including;

  • Attaining a new life goal – Individualized living options let participants explore new opportunities and broaden horizons to better meet their goals. It’s a kind of avenue that can bring them closer to the world at large, enabling them to live life with more independence and self-reliance.
  • Provides an understanding of basic life skills – The fundamental goal of the NDIS is to enable participants to develop new skills or enhance existing ones that will help increase their independence. Some areas they focus on are skill development and training, planning, budgeting and decision-making, and enhancing life skills like cooking, cleaning or meal preparation.
  • Improved domestic support – ILO can help participants live more independently by providing various household and personal services. These include help with regular domestic chores like cleaning or cooking or support workers to help you become more involved in your daily living tasks.

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