Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00843:clause:1_2:p1
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2  Care and services—for all care recipients who need them
  The following table specifies the care and services that must be provided for all care recipients who need them.

Care and services——to be provided for all care recipients who need them
Item                                                                     Column 1                                                         Column 2
                                                                         Care or service                                                  Content
2.1                                                                      Daily living activities assistance                               Personal assistance, including individual attention, individual supervision, and physical assistance, with the following:
                                                                                                                                          (a) bathing, showering, personal hygiene and grooming;
                                                                                                                                          (b) maintaining continence or managing incontinence, and using aids and appliances designed to assist continence management;
                                                                                                                                          (c) eating and eating aids, and using eating utensils and eating aids (including actual feeding if necessary);
                                                                                                                                          (d) dressing, undressing, and using dressing aids;
                                                                                                                                          (e) moving, walking, wheelchair use, and using devices and appliances designed to aid mobility, including the fitting of artificial limbs and other personal mobility aids;
                                                                                                                                          (f) communication, including to address difficulties arising from impaired hearing, sight or speech, or lack of common language (including fitting sensory communication aids), and checking hearing aid batteries and cleaning spectacles.
                                                                                                                                          Excludes hairdressing.
2.2                                                                      Meals and refreshments                                           Special diet not normally provided.
2.3                                                                      Emotional support                                                Emotional support to, and supervision of, care recipients.
2.4                                                                      Treatments and procedures                                        Treatments and procedures that are carried out according to the instructions of a health professional or a person responsible for assessing a care recipient's personal care needs, including supervision and physical assistance with taking medications, and ordering and reordering medications, subject to requirements of State or Territory law.
                                                                                                                                          Includes bandages, dressings, swabs and saline.
2.5                                                                      Recreational therapy                                             Recreational activities suited to care recipients, participation in the activities, and communal recreational equipment.
2.6                                                                      Rehabilitation support                                           Individual therapy programs designed by health professionals that are aimed at maintaining or restoring a care recipient's ability to perform daily tasks for himself or herself, or assisting care recipients to obtain access to such programs.
2.7                                                                      Assistance in obtaining health practitioner services             Arrangements for aural, community health, dental, medical, psychiatric and other health practitioners to visit care recipients, whether the arrangements are made by care recipients, relatives or other persons representing the interests of care recipients, or are made direct with a health practitioner.
2.8                                                                      Assistance in obtaining access to specialised therapy services   Making arrangements for speech therapists, podiatrists, occupational or physiotherapy practitioners to visit care recipients, whether the arrangements are made by care recipients, relatives or other persons representing the interests of care recipients.
2.9                                                                      Support for care recipients with cognitive impairment            Individual attention and support to care recipients with cognitive impairment (for example, dementia and behavioural disorders), including individual therapy activities and specific programs designed and carried out to prevent or manage a particular condition or behaviour and to enhance the quality of life and care