Supported Independent Living in Adelaide

Who pays for what: SIL, SDA and rent?

The NDIS pays for your support through Supported Independent Living (SIL), and for a purpose-built home through Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA), which is applied for separately. You pay rent, board, food and utilities from your own income. SIL never pays rent, and SDA doesn’t pay for the support workers inside the home.

	What it covers	Who pays	Where it sits in your plan
SIL	Support workers to help or supervise you, 24/7	NDIS	Core Supports
Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA)	The building itself, purpose-built	NDIS (applied for separately)	Capital Supports
Rent and living costs	Rent, board, food, utilities	You, from your income	Not funded

Complete Choice is registered to deliver SIL. We are not an SDA provider — our homes are standard rental properties we’ve made accessible. If you need purpose-built SDA, we’ll tell you and help you look.

What does living in a SIL home actually look like?

Living in a Complete Choice SIL home means sharing a standard house, made accessible, with support workers there 24 hours a day. Support follows your routine: help in the morning and evening, and the middle of the day is yours. You meet your housemates before you move in, and the aim is to do more for yourself over time.

A day. Support starts before you’re up and runs past when you go to bed. Someone’s there for the morning routine — personal care if you need it, breakfast, medication, getting out the door. The middle of the day is yours: work, study, a program, an appointment, or nothing in particular. Evenings are the shared part of the house — cooking, eating together if that’s what the household does, time to yourself if it isn’t.

Staffing. Every home is staffed for the people who live in it. It’s flexible: staffing is planned around the support needs of the people in the house, and agreed with you before you move in.

Who you live with. Housemate matching decides whether a house works. Before anyone moves in, we look at daily rhythms, noise, support needs, interests, and what people actually want from the people they live with. You meet the household before you decide. So do they. Nobody moves in on paper.

Doing more over time. Living here should mean doing more yourself, not less. Cooking one night a week, then two. Managing your own medication with prompting instead of administration. Catching the bus somewhere you used to be driven. We write it down, we review it, and when you don’t need a support any more, we say so.

Your support workers. Tell us your preferences — gender, language, cultural background, whether you’d rather keep the same small team. We work to match you. Where a support is delivered by one worker alone rather than a team, we complete a risk assessment first. That’s a condition of our NDIS registration, and it exists to keep you safe.

What if support needs to be clinical?

Some people need nursing alongside daily support — medication administration, wound care, PEG feeding, seizure management. We’re registered for both High Intensity Daily Personal Activities and Community Nursing Care, so your nursing and the workers who see you at 7am can come from the same organisation. Tell us what you need and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can staff it.

Community nursing · High intensity and complex care

How do I get SIL in my NDIS plan?

You ask the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) for home and living supports through your my NDIS contact, with recent evidence from your treating health professionals, such as an occupational therapist. The evidence explains your daily support and housing needs, and what other options you’ve tried. The NDIA decides, and may ask for more. With us, it goes like this:

1. Exploration. We meet, and gather the evidence — reports from allied health, your GP, and anyone currently supporting you.
2. NDIS Home and Living Support Team approval. Your request goes to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). This takes time, and it’s normal for them to ask for more.
3. Complete Choice quote. The support and staffing you need across a week, worked out with you.
4. Client match and housing. Meeting the household, a trial stay if that helps.
5. Final agreements and intake. Then the move, planned rather than sudden.

A Support Coordinator makes all of this easier. Support Coordination

Read about our support in Hillcrest, Magill, Munno Para West and Salisbury.