A service that provides routine homemaking and household maintenance for clients and is intended to preserve or improve the safety and sanitation of a client’s living conditions as well as the nutritional value of food and meals consumed by a client.
More can be done for private pay clients than listed below.
Caregiver shall ensure and maintain safe and sanitary living conditions for clients by performing the following tasks:
1. Clean the client’s living area, including:
a. Dusting, cleaning floors, carpets, ceilings,
walls, bathrooms, and windows as necessary
to maintain safe and sanitary living
conditions.
b. Cleaning oven, stove, and refrigerator as
necessary to prepare food safely; cleaning
kitchen, washing dishes, and routine cleaning
of household appliances.
2. Change linens and make beds used by the client.
3. Perform laundering tasks for the client, including washing, drying, and folding laundry. Ironing is included if the client cannot wear clothes without ironing.
4. Caregiver shall ensure nutritional maintenance of clients by performing the following tasks:
a. Plan, prepare, cook, and serve meals to meet
the daily dietary needs of the client,
including a therapeutic diet if prescribed.
b. Feed the client, as necessary.
c. Remind and encourage the client to eat.
5. Caregiver shall perform other tasks to assist the client with maintaining self sufficiency, including:
a. Performing essential errands such as grocery
shopping, and obtaining prescriptions,
medical supplies, and household supplies.
b. Caregiver shall perform storage tasks as
necessary.
c. Caregiver shall perform other duties
and tasks included in the client’s
individualized care plan that are
necessary to assist the client with
maintaining self-sufficiency.
6. Caregiver may NOT use the client’s private vehicle or transport the client in the client’s private vehicle to perform errands. Caregiver may only use the caregiver’s private vehicle when performing errands. Caregivers that are family/relatives of the client are exempt from this provision.
7. Routine homemaking supplies (such as detergents, sponges, rags, and mops) shall be provided by the client. If a client is not able to provide necessary supplies, notify your supervisor.
8. Tasks performed apply only to the areas used by the client and not the client’s family or pets.
