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High intensity daily personal activities is the term used by the NDIS to describe the more complex supports some people need to manage their daily lives. 

These include supporting people in their own homes or in community health settings who have diabetes. epilepsy and high-risk seizures. As per NDIS Practice Standards below:

NDIS Practice Standards: High intensity support skills descriptors Guidance for NDIS providers and auditors November 2022 Version 3

1. Complex Bowel Care: This skills descriptor applies when supporting a participant who is at risk of severe constipation or faecal incontinence and requires a support plan to manage this risk.
2. Enteral Feeding Support: This skills descriptor applies when supporting a participant who depends on
   enteral feeding tubes (also called Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) and includes Nasogastric tube feeding (NGT), Gastrostomy feeding, including percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) or jejunostomy.
3. Dysphagia Support: This skills descriptor applies when supporting a participant assessed as having swallowing, biting, or chewing difficulties that can present a risk for health outcomes including choking, aspiration, malnutrition and/or dehydration.
4. Ventilator Support: This skills descriptor applies when supporting a participant who uses a ventilator.
   Participants may require support to use ventilation and accessory equipment such as; Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP), and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines, humidifiers,
   airway clearance devices, suctioning, manual ventilation devices, and oxygen.
5. Tracheostomy Support: This skills descriptor applies when supporting a participant who requires support to use both fenestrated or non-fenestrated tracheostomy and related equipment and appliances, such as stoma appliances, heat moisture exchange machines, humidifiers, nebuliser devices, suctioning bags, and dressings.
6. Urinary Catheter Support (In-dwelling Urinary Catheter, In-out Catheter, Suprapubic Catheter): This skills descriptor applies when providing high intensity support to a participant with a catheter. This may include insertion and removal of an intermittent catheter with oversight by a health practitioner. Insertion of in-dwelling and suprapubic catheters should be done by a health practitioner.
7. Subcutaneous Injections: This applies when supporting a participant who requires subcutaneous injections and may apply when administering a range of medications. The skills descriptor contains additional guidance on skills and knowledge for workers supporting participants to manage their diabetes.
8. Complex Wound Care Support: This skills descriptor applies when supporting a participant at high risk of pressure injuries and includes both prevention and management of wounds and pressure injuries when they arise. It includes skills and knowledge to support participants to use equipment such as lymphoedema machines and assistive circulatory devices.
9. Epilepsy and Seizure Support: This skills descriptor applies when supporting a participant who is at high risk of seizures. It also covers skills and knowledge to support participants to use seizure monitors and wearable technology, such as smartwatches, sleep activity monitors and/or above mattress sensors.