Mr Currie appeared in the Otago Daily Times earlier this week, saying he ended up in Dunedin Hospital for two nights last week suffering pleurisy he blamed on worry over his housework.
He was receiving 30 minutes' help a week, following an appeal, after the Southern District Health Board initially told him he would get no help around the house.
Mr Currie had started doing more housework, including vacuum-cleaning, but put his illness down to worrying over the housework rather than over-work.
On Wednesday, he received a letter from the DHB increasing his help to an hour.
In Parliament on Wednesday, Labour health spokeswoman Ruth Dyson raised the matter with Health Minister Tony Ryall, who said he was aware of Mr Currie's case, and had received an assurance from the health board that "no-one will be unsafe or forced out of his or her home because of the changes made to home support."
Health board finance and funding general manager Robert Mackway-Jones said the board did not comment on individual cases.
