Supported Independent Living in Adelaide

SIL, SDA and rent: who pays for what

	What it covers	Who pays	Where it sits in your plan
SIL	The support workers and the roster of care	NDIS	Core Supports
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 living here actually looks like

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. Staffing differs between houses, and each home’s page states its own model, because it’s the thing that differs most between houses.

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.

When 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 the nurse who writes your plan and the workers who see you at 7am are in the same organisation, working from the same page. That’s not a slogan; it’s the difference between an instruction reaching your morning shift and it sitting in a file.

Community nursing · High intensity and complex care

Getting SIL into your plan

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 NDIA. This takes time, and it’s normal for them to ask for more.
3. Complete Choice quote. A roster of care — the hours and staffing you need across a week — prepared 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