Personal Care Services for the Disabled and Seniors
• Assist with activities of daily living such as:
- Light housekeeping
- Bathing
- Grooming
- Dressing and clothing selection
- Meal preparation
- Toileting
- Transfers and positioning
- Mobility
- Accompanying client to doctor and other appointments
- Picking up medication prescriptions
- Medication Reminders
• Perform home chores such as:
- Helping with personal errands
- Washing dishes and putting them away
- Cleaning, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming and dusting
- Changing linens and making beds
- Doing laundry and ironing
- Cleaning stoves, microwaves and refrigerators
- Emptying the trash
- Grocery shopping
- Assisting with pet care
- Watering and caring for houseplants
- Planning meals, shopping for ingredients and preparing future meals
• Provide friendship, socialization and support including:
- Visiting with the client
- Responding to the client's requests
- Helping with correspondence
- Participating in activities, such as community events, games and hobbies
- Reading to the client
- Renting and playing movies
- Accompanying the client to religious services
- Visiting neighbors, friends and relatives
- Monitoring the client's diet and eating
- Checking foods in the home for expiration dates
- Helping the client keep a calendar
- Arranging appointments and providing appointment reminders
- Organizing the client's mail, and paying bills
- Organizing closets
- Answering the door, overseeing home deliveries and home maintenance
- Assisting with wake-up and nighttime routines
• Document care and observations as directed by the client's plan of care
• Assist with range-of-motion exercises