Finding a Companion With a Pet Therapy What is Pet Therapy? Pet therapy is interacting with animals to help improve physical and mental issues. The purpose of pet therapy is to help someone cope with health problems or a mental disorder. It can also help lower stress levels, lower blood [...]
Dementia Support Australia Sometimes you might forget names, anniversaries, paying the bills, where you parked your car or even why you went into a room. An occasional memory slip is perfectly normal, especially as we get older. However, dementia is something different. It is a disorder that causes a compelling [...]
Getting Started with ADACare, a registered NDIS provider ADACare is a registered NDIS service provider who specialise in disability and aged care support. Our goal is to make sure you live the life you choose as independently as possible, making your own decisions. That is why we will work with you [...]
ADACare In-Home Care Nursing ADACare in-home care nursing is when the NDIS or elderly participants live in their own houses and have a ADACare qualified nurse or carer. They visit them depending on their requests for an agreed number of hours per week. Our qualified nurses will assist them with [...]
The NDIA has just released the Guide to Plan Management. It is important to note that the new Plan Management Guide is not and is not intended to be a Plan Management Framework or Policy Setting, which the NDIA has been promising for the past three years. This is likely [...]
ADACSS is a registered NDIS service provider and provider of Inform Online. ADACSS provides a range of options for beginning your NDIS journey, accessing supports such as NDIS consumables, viewing NDIS guides, resources and tools such as the NDIS Planning Guide. Navigating the NDIS can be daunting, especially if the NDIS marks the [...]
The New Assessment Process Proposal When Craig Wallace was 12, he was sent to a camp for children with disabilities, where despite his use of calipers and crutches, a physiotherapist forced him to walk up a hill as quickly as he could.When Mr Wallace fell, breaking his arm, that physiotherapist [...]
The NDIS was heralded as a landmark program for Australians with a disability when it was established in 2013, but it has long been criticised as being bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy. After the election in May 2019, the Federal Government commissioned former senior public servant David Tune [...]
With three days’ notice in 1989 a son, Ben Gower, came to them by way of adoption and they found themselves very suddenly becoming a mum and a dad. With all the excitement of new parenthood, and not quite sure what to expect, it was a joy getting to know [...]
National Disability Insurance Scheme participants in New South Wales and Victoria who rely on face-to-face supports will now be able to use NDIS funding to buy masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE), the federal government has announced. NDIS Minister Stuart Robert said on Wednesday these temporary changes would [...]
