Services
Medium Term Accommodation
A safe home in 5 to 7 days.
Somewhere to go while the long term home is sorted.
Medium term accommodation (MTA) is NDIS funded housing for up to 90 days while a person's long term home is arranged. It's often used when someone is ready to leave hospital but their permanent home isn't ready, isn't safe or hasn't been found.
For hospital discharge, if the participant is eligible for SIL, Specialist Disability Accommodation, an individualised living option or home modifications, the NDIS can fund medium term accommodation even before a permanent home is confirmed. It's also used when someone is waiting for their long term home, or for modifications, to be ready.
We source the home, work with the treating OT on equipment and modifications, and staff it with a dementia trained team who are trained on the person before they move in. The 5 to 7 day timeframe applies to every referral, from a hospital ward or from the community.
Everything the first 90 days need.
A home in 5 to 7 days.
Close to family and services wherever possible.
Set up with the OT.
Equipment and modifications in place before anyone moves in.
Staffed from the first night.
1:1 or 2:1, with a team trained on the person's own plans.
Evidence, not guesswork.
Every shift recorded against the person's goals and daily functioning.
Weekly written updates.
To the treating team and coordinator throughout the stay.
A plan for what comes next.
One of our homes, or back home with in-home care.
Who it's for.
- Patients ready for discharge with nowhere suitable to go yet
- Participants waiting for SIL, Specialist Disability Accommodation or home modifications
- People whose current home is no longer safe for them
- People funded for shared support whose presentation points to 1:1
- People in regions where a permanent home is still being arranged
How it works.
Referral.
Same business day response.
Meet and scope.
We meet the person, the decision maker and the treating team, and map out what a safe move needs.
Home sourced in 5 to 7 days.
Set up with the OT, and a team recruited, matched and trained in parallel.
Move in and gather evidence.
Up to 90 days of structured support, documented every shift.
Permanent home.
We support the reassessment and the move to one of our homes or back home with in-home care.
Right fit funding
The right plan. Not just a bigger one.
A plan written from a hospital bed is a best guess. The weeks in medium term accommodation are the best chance to replace that guess with evidence. Sometimes it shows a person needs more support than their plan funds. Sometimes less. Either way, the reassessment is built on facts.
Our standards
Our commitments. In writing.
- Same day
- Every referral answered
- 5 to 7 days
- A medium term home sourced
- Weekly
- Written updates to the treating team and coordinator
- No charge
- Discharge meetings and case conferences
- One
- Named contact to the permanent home
Where it's available.
Medium term accommodation is available across all of Queensland.
How it's funded.
The NDIS funds the cost of medium term accommodation, usually for up to 90 days, with extensions only in limited circumstances. The support delivered in the home is funded separately from Core Supports. We plan the permanent home from the first day, so the 90 days are used well.
“I've referred to a lot of NDIS providers over the years. Most of them mean well, but dementia is complex, and it shows quickly when a coordinator doesn't really understand it. With Dementia Care Queensland, I refer and I don't worry. Their coordinators understand progression. They understand the family dynamics. And they pick up the phone. That's rarer than it should be.”
Questions about medium term accommodation
Somewhere safe to go, within days.
One call starts the whole move. We respond to every referral the same business day.