All personal care needs for individuals of 21 yrs or older. These services include but are not limited to assisting individuals with eating, meal prep, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, and other self-care activities of daily living. May require assistance with vacuuming, house chores, and activities related to the safety and welfare of the recipient. Provided on one-on-one basis insurance accepted: Private pay and Medicaid.
Adult Companion Services are nonmedical care, supervision, and socialization provided to a functionally impaired adult. Companions may assist or supervise the recipient with such tasks as meal preparation, laundry, and shopping. Providers may also perform light housekeeping tasks that are incidental to the care and supervision of the individual.
Home manager and Homemaker services consist of light housekeeping activities (meal preparation and routine household care) provided by a trained homemaker when the individual who is regularly responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to manage the home and care for him or herself or others in the home.
Respite care is a service that provides supportive care and supervision to individuals under age 21 when the primary caregiver is unable to perform the duties of a caregiver. This service is generally used due to a brief planned or emergency absence, or when the primary caregiver is available.
Personal care services provide medically necessary assistance with activities of daily living (ADL) and age-appropriate instrumental activities of daily living (ADL) that enable the recipient to accomplish tasks that they would normally be able to do for themselves, if they did not have a medical condition or disability.
ADLs include:
- Eating (oral feedings and fluid intake)
- Bathing
- Dressing
- Toileting
- Transferring
- Maintaining continence (examples include taking care of a catheter or colostomy bag or changing at disposable incontinence product when the recipient is unable to control his bowel or bladder functions).
IADLs (when necessary for the recipient to function independently) include:
- Personal hygiene
- Light housework
- Laundry
- Meal preparation
- Using the telephone to take care of essential tasks (examples include paying bills and setting up medical appointments)
Sunshine
Humana
United Healthcare
Molina
CMS
VA Community Care