Incontinence happens when you can’t control your bladder or bowel movements.
Continence supports are products you use every day to manage your incontinence, such as pads or bed protectors. Continence supports could include support from someone to help you manage your continence.
The Australian health system can provide continence supports. We may fund continence supports as an NDIS support for you if they relate to your disability.
For children, we may be able to fund continence supports as an NDIS support, if they relate to your child’s disability or developmental delay. We may also fund a professional to train someone to help you with your continence supports.
Note:
- When we say ‘your plan’, we mean your NDIS plan.
- As part of the recent changes to the NDIS laws we are moving towards a new framework for planning. Rules need to be developed for this new framework. We’re working on how and when we’ll introduce these changes.
Until then, the information in this Our Guideline is about our ‘old framework’ for planning, which includes the legislative changes that became operational when the law commenced.
All current plans will be known as 'old framework' plans, and we will continue to develop these until all participants have transitioned to the new framework.