Homeshare brings together older householders or householders with a disability who could benefit from help in the home and companionship, with people of integrity prepared to lend a hand in return for affordable accommodation. The Householder provides a bedroom and shared facilities. In exchange, the Homesharer provides approximately 10 hours per week of practical assistance such as cooking, cleaning, shopping and gardening, as well as providing company and the added security of having someone else sleeping in the home.
Region: New Zealand
NZ Choice In Community Living Cabinet Paper
Homeshare and NDIS
Many people with disabilities are able to live independently with relatively simple supports. For example people may need assistance with domestic duties (cooking, washing, gardening, cleaning etc.), companionship, or the security of someone to staying in their house overnight. However, the cost of these supports if provided only by paid workers is often prohibitive. Moreover one can imagine many circumstances where the companionship of a trusted housemate may be preferable to the company of paid workers: eg sharing a meal, going to a football match, staying overnight, etc.
Creating High Quality Individualised Outcomes
Most countries have established (or are establishing) national policy work on a range of innovative funding approaches. These approaches are instrumental in changing the way in which services to people with a disability are developed and delivered and are indicative of a world wide movement towards greater self direction by people with disabilities over the supports which they receive and greater self determination over how they choose to live their lives.