Personal Care is service that directly assists a client with activities of daily living, maintaining personal cleanliness, and meeting essential personal physical needs.
More can be done for private pay clients than listed below.
Caregiver shall assist clients with performing their activities of daily living and maintaining personal cleanliness, by performing the following tasks:
1. Showering, bathing, toileting, dressing, shampooing, grooming, oral hygiene, and caring for clients’ other physical needs.
2. Routine nail care (cleaning and filing) and skin care, unless the client is diabetic or has circulatory problems.
3. Routine ambulation activities.
4. Transferring to and from the wheelchair, bed, shower, tub, and toilet. May include use of mechanical lift devices.
5. Assisting with adaptive equipment, assistive devices, special appliances, and/or prosthetic devices, if the procedure is routine and well established.
6. Assisting the movement-restricted client with tasks necessary for comfort and safety (tasks that do not require medical or nursing supervision).
7. Assist the client with the self-administration of medications, including reminding the client to take medications, and/or assisting the alert client with
the opening of medication containers.
8. Accompanying the client to medically necessary appointments using Agency contracted non-emergency transportation caregivers as authorized in advance by the care manager. Caregiver may not transport the client in the caregiver’s or client’s private vehicle to such appointments. Caregivers that are family/relatives of the client are exempt from this provision.
9. Encouraging the client, family, and/or friends to provide personal care tasks when such persons are available and can provide appropriate care.
10. Encouraging family support of the client's care.
11. Serving food and feeding the client, as necessary.
12. Reminding and encouraging the client to eat.
