09/08/2024
This, plus so much more!! 💕
🌟 NDIS In and Out Lists - "Hair therapy, hair and beauty services including nail salons"
📋 The government has made new draft lists and they want your feedback.
📚 These lists show what you can and cannot buy with NDIS money.
⚠️ This is a big potential change.
🔗 You can read more about these lists in the comment below.
📝 I will write about different things on these lists this week.
🧐 I will tell you why I think some things should not be "OUT."
⌚ Here's a story about why Hairdressers should Be "IN"
✍️ Share Your Story - Please tell your hair or beauty salon or barber story in the comments, because we don't think it should be on that "OUT" list for everybody!
👩🏾 Imagine Aisha, a married woman in her 30's who has a physical disability and cannot raise her hands above her shoulders.
👩🦼 Aisha goes in her electric wheelchair to her local hairdressing salon every Tuesday and Friday. In her tilt recline wheelchair she is able to tilt back to the special hair washing basin at the hairdresser, where the apprentice, washes and blow-dries her hair. This costs $20, twice a week (a total of $2,100/year).
Aisha is well known at the hairdresser’s as she such a regular, and after going there for some time, she ends up out for a coffee with the salon staff at the end of their workday. As the staff talk about their poor bookkeeping skills, Aisha, who was working as an office manager before her accident, offers to help out. Aisha ends up working half a day a week, straight after her morning hair appointment on Tuesdays, earning a small income, but also making deep friendships in her local community, keeping busy and rebuilding her career, something she sorely missed when she stopped working in an office.
🚫 And here is Aisha's story without being allowed to use her funds at the local hairdresser.
Aisha does not want her husband to wash her hair in the shower. He’s no good at it, and when she’s menstruating, it’s culturally unacceptable for her to have him in the bathroom, helping. He’s also a shift worker, so the timing hardly ever works.
She hires a support worker to come in twice a week, with a minimum 2 hour shift, which costs $268/week, a total of around $14,000/year. Aisha does not want other support work done at home as her husband is happy to do the housework and she looks after the cooking. She doesn't need help with shopping, but she likes to use the online shopping delivery service, rather than go with a worker. She rarely uses a support worker in her home.
🚿 She is deeply uncomfortable with having a worker see her naked in the shower (she was once assaulted as a teen by a worker), but there is no way around this, so she often cancels the shift (which she still has to pay for) and she also cancels her visit to her study group (and coffee chat afterwards) at her place of worship, as she doesn’t feel presentable or clean enough to meet her cultural and religious needs.
The worker is also often sick or unreliable, and sometimes the company sends a male worker, so she culturally can’t use him for any personal care, and so he does a bit of other work in their home, and she sends him home early.
pic desc:: a woman in a wheelchair leaning back in her wheelchair to a sink in a salon while someone washes her hair. ai generated and while not perfect is a million times better than the first shot, which I will put in the comments for your amusement...
