Advancing Individual Independence
Homemaker Personal Care is the process of helping a person be more independent by meeting his or her daily living needs. This can include helping someone with meal preparation, cleaning, and laundry; keeping track of medications, running errands, and assisting with transportation.
Examples of Support
- Self Advocacy: The ability to express personal preferences, assert rights, and make increasingly responsible choices.
- Self-Direction: Making decisions and choices affecting the individual’s life.
- Daily Living Skills: Training in and providing assistance with meal preparation, personal care, self-administration of medication.
- Therapeutic interventions are implemented under the direction of a professional or extension of therapeutic services. These consist of reinforcing physical, occupational, speech, and other therapeutic programs.
- Behavioral support strategies: Training and assistance in appropriate expressions of emotions, assertiveness, or acquisition of socially-appropriate behaviors.
- Emergency response training: The development of responses in case of emergencies, prevention planning, and training in the use of equipment or technologies.
- Community access services that explore community services available to all people and activities needed by the individual to be integrated in and have more access to the community.
- Routine administration of medication or tending to the needs of individuals who are ill or require attention on an ongoing basis.
- When provided with other components of homemaker/personal care, assist with personal finances.
