Assistance with Daily Life
Support with morning routines, meals, shopping and appointments — built around growing your confidence rather than creating dependence.
Support with the day, not instead of it
Assistance with Daily Life covers the ordinary things that keep life running — getting up and going, meals, appointments, the weekly shop.
We work alongside you rather than taking over. If you can do part of a task, you do that part. Over time most people need less help, not more, and that is the point.
What this looks like
- Morning and evening routines
- Personal care, at whatever level you need
- Cooking together, or preparing meals ahead
- Shopping and managing a budget
- Getting to appointments and remembering them
- Keeping on top of mail, bills and forms
Building skills, not dependence
There is a real difference between a service that does everything for you and one that helps you do more yourself. The first is easier to deliver. The second is what your funding is for.
In practice that means your worker might stand in the kitchen with you rather than cook while you wait. It might be slower at first. It is the difference between getting a meal and getting a skill.
Where a task is genuinely not something you want to build capacity in, we just do it. Not everything has to be a goal.
Want help with daily life?
Tell us what a difficult day looks like and we will work out what would help.
Not sure where to start?
Tell us what is going on and we will talk you through the options — including telling you honestly if we are not the right fit.