Supported Independent Living – The Right Support to Live Your Way
We offer tailored, around-the-clock support for participants living in shared or individual accommodation — enabling greater independence while ensuring the right level of assistance is always there when you need it.
What is SIL?
Supported Independent Living (SIL) is an NDIS funded support that covers the assistance you receive while living in your home — helping with daily tasks, personal care, and building independence. SIL is about the support provided in your home, not the housing itself. It can be delivered in a range of living arrangements including shared houses, individual apartments, or purpose-built SDA properties.
What Is Supported Independent Living?
Supported Independent Living (SIL) provides hands-on assistance to help you manage daily life in your own home — whether that’s help with personal care, cooking, household tasks, medication or simply having a support worker present for safety and reassurance. SIL is designed to give you the level of support you need, while actively encouraging independence and working toward your personal goals.
At Ace of Care, our SIL services are built around each individual — not a roster. We take the time to understand your goals, your routines and your preferences, and build a support model that genuinely enables you to live the life you want.
Our SIL services are designed around each person's goals — enabling greater independence while ensuring the right level of assistance is always available.
We offer flexible, around-the-clock support for participants living in shared or individual accommodation. Whether you need overnight support, active day support, or a tailored mix of both, our experienced team is here to assist — with warmth, consistency and genuine commitment to your wellbeing.
SIL Living Arrangement Options
SIL can be delivered across a range of living arrangements to suit your needs, lifestyle and preferences:
Support delivered in your own home or apartment. Ideal for participants who value privacy and independence, with the security of consistent support when needed.
Living with other participants in a shared house, with support workers providing assistance to all residents. This model offers social connection alongside cost-effective support.
For participants in Specialised Disability Accommodation, SIL provides the in-home supports within that purpose-built environment — maximising both housing design and care quality.
What Our SIL Support Includes
Our SIL services cover the full range of daily supports needed to help you live comfortably and independently at home:
- Showering, grooming and personal hygiene
- Dressing and undressing assistance
- Toileting and continence support
- Mobility, transfers and positioning
- Morning and evening routine support
- Planning and preparing daily meals
- Following dietary plans or clinical requirements
- Assistance with eating and drinking
- Grocery shopping and pantry management
- Promoting healthy eating habits
- General cleaning and housekeeping
- Laundry, folding and ironing
- Maintaining a safe, organised home environment
- Minor household errands and tasks
- Medication prompts and assistance
- Coordination with healthcare providers
- Monitoring health and wellbeing
- Support attending health appointments
- We include connecting participants in SIL to counselors,therapists,psychologist and behavioural therapists
- Support accessing community activities
- Accompanying to appointments and outings
- Maintaining social connections and friendships
- Encouraging independence in the community
- Support to develop everyday living skills
- Building confidence in daily routines
- Working toward NDIS goals and milestones
- Gradual reduction of support as independence grows
"SIL should feel like support that fits around your life — not a life that fits around a support schedule. We build every SIL plan with the person at the centre, so they're always in control of how their day looks."
Understanding SIL and SDA Together
SIL and SDA are two separate NDIS funding streams that work together to support people with significant disability to live in their own home. Here's how they differ:
- Covers the support you receive at home
- Personal care, daily living, skill building
- Funded under Core Supports
- Delivered by Ace of Care support workers
- Available in any home environment
- Tailored to your goals and routines
- Covers the cost of purpose-built housing
- The physical home and its design features
- Funded under Capital Supports
- Provided by registered SDA providers
- For participants with extreme functional impairment
- Works alongside SIL, not instead of it
If you're exploring both SIL and SDA, our team can help you understand how both work together and support you in accessing both through your NDIS plan.
Our Approach to SIL
We believe SIL should never feel institutional. Our approach to supported living is built around genuine relationships, consistent staffing and support that truly adapts to each person's life.
- NDIS goals embedded in daily support routines
- Regular reviews to track progress and adjust support
- Encouraging skill development and independence
- Open communication with families and coordinators
We know how important it is to feel comfortable and safe with the people supporting you at home. We prioritise consistency — working hard to ensure the same familiar faces are there for you day after day.
- 24/7 on-call support and escalation pathways
- Thorough handover between all shifts
- Regular home safety and risk assessments
- All staff NDIS screened and fully trained
SIL Support Hours & Availability
Our SIL services are available across a full range of support hours to match your care needs and lifestyle:
Support rosters are developed collaboratively with you, your family and your support coordinator — ensuring the right mix of active and passive support throughout the day and night, aligned to your funding and care needs.
Who Can Access SIL?
SIL is available to NDIS participants who require daily living support in their home environment. You may be eligible if you:
- Require daily assistance with personal care
- Need overnight or around-the-clock support
- Are transitioning from family care or hospital
- Are moving into independent or shared living
- Have physical, intellectual or psychosocial disability
- Require support building independence and life skills
- Are currently in or considering SDA housing
- Want to live more independently with the right support
SIL is funded under Core Supports in your NDIS plan and is typically one of the largest funding items for participants with high support needs. The amount approved is based on your individual support requirements as assessed by the NDIA. We can help you understand your SIL funding and what level of support it covers.
Why Choose Ace of Care for SIL?
Every support plan is built around your individual goals, routines, preferences and NDIS funding — not a one-size-fits-all model.
We prioritise familiar faces — building real relationships with the people we support in their homes.
Day support, sleepover support, and on-call availability — we're there whenever you need us, 365 days a year.
Our goal is to support you to do more for yourself over time, not create dependency. We celebrate every step forward.
From high physical support to psychosocial disability, our team is skilled across a wide range of support needs.
Fully registered and experienced in SIL funding, compliance and reporting — giving you and your family complete confidence.
Ready to Explore Supported Independent Living?
Whether you’re considering SIL for the first time or looking to change providers, we’d love to talk. Contact Ace of Care today for a free, no-obligation conversation about how we can support you to live your best life at home.