In-Home Services

Homemaker Services

The In-Home Services Program provides home care services to enable senior citizens who cannot perform basic tasks for themselves to remain in their own homes.  
Homemaker services provide assistance to persons with the inability to perform one or more of the following activities of daily living: preparing meals, shopping for personal items, managing money, using the telephone or doing light housework.

A mature, trained, supervised aide performs light housekeeping, plans and prepares meals, assists with daily living and teaches individuals how to live and cope with a new disability or to prevent further illness.

Eligibility

Homemaker services are targeted to persons 60 years of age or older who are frail, have disabilities, or who are at risk of institutional placement. Priority shall be given to persons who are in the greatest economic or social need and/or residing in rural or geographically isolated areas, with particular attention to low-income minority individuals and individuals with limited English proficiency.

Services May Include:

  • Basic housekeeping and home management skills necessary to ensure safe, sanitary conditions in the client’s home, such as dusting, vacuuming, sweeping and mopping. Housekeeping is performed only for the client;
  • Instructing client in home management, including maintaining an orderly environment, proper food storage, preparation of shopping lists, meal planning and preparation;
  • Shopping assistance with or without client
  • Personal laundry and mending of clothing
  • Client transportation may be provided only when other transportation services are unavailable and for scheduled appointments. Need must be clearly documented. Routine transportation is not permitted.

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Assistance May Include:

  • Assistance with eating, including set up, opening containers, and cutting food.
    Feeding is not permitted.
  • Assistance with bathing of areas that the client cannot reach. Bed baths or
    transferring are not permitted.
  • Assistance with dressing of ambulatory clients, such as the fastening of clothing on
    the client. Lifting or putting on braces or other supports is not permitted.
  • Assistance with personal grooming, such as combing hair, brushing dentures and
    shaving with an electric razor. Cutting nails or shaving with a blade is not permitted;
  •  Supportive assistance with ambulation, such as providing stabilization to the client
    while walking. Lifting and transferring are not permitted.