Adult Day Care
Care outside a person's home that is approved by the state. Services include assistance with activities of daily living, planned activities, meals and transportation to and from the setting.
Advanced Personal Care
Help in a person's home with tasks where special devices and procedures are needed.
Assessment
A way to learn about a person to know what help they need.
Basic Personal Care
Help with care in a person's home.
Examples:
washing their hair, dressing, bathing, and using the toilet.
Case Management
Services that help people get medical and other services they need to stay in their homes.
Consumer Directed Personal Care
Help with care in a person's home.
Examples:
washing their hair, dressing, bathing, and using the toilet.
The person must be able to hire the worker, show them how to help, and fire them if it doesn't work out.
Private Duty Nursing
Skilled nursing services within the home provided by an RN or LPN.
Specialized Medical Equipment and Supplies
Items or tools to make certain the person is healthy and safe.
To help the person be independent.
Assistive Technology
Tools that help people do things without another person's help.
Examples: Electronic motion sensor devices, door alarms, remote monitoring for health and safety.
Behavioral Analysis Service
To help a person work with what life gives them. The person has training and a license.
Communication Skills Instruction
To help people who have trouble talking to be able to talk.
Person Centered Strategies Consultation
To help a person improve their actions and quality of life.
Crisis intervention
To help keep a person safe due to current problems.
Co-Worker Supports
Has a friend to assist the person while at work.
Job Discovery
Help to learn about what job a person wants.
Job Preparation
Extra help to learn a job.
Community Specialist Services
To help a person reach goals in their Individual Support Plan.
Community Transition
When you leave a skilled home. This helps pay for things so you can move to a home of your own.
Counseling
Counseling by a skilled staff person.
Independent Living Skills Development
To teach home and community skills.
Dental
Partnership for Hope Waiver only
Dental help for adults from a licensed dentist to promote healthy teeth and gums.
Environmental Accessibility Adaptations Home/Vehicle Modifications
Things done to a person's home or car to make sure they are healthy and safe to be independent.
Group Home
Housing for people who live with four or more people in a small home setting.
Individualized Supported Living
Help so a person can stay in a home of their own. They may live alone or with two or three housemates.
Shared Living/Companion Model
A home where a person can live with other people who can help.
Occupational Therapy
A way to help a person do things in their everyday life.
Physical Therapy
A way to help a person to move arms and legs so they do not get stiff.
Speech Therapy
Helps people who have trouble speaking.
Personal Assistant
Help with caring for yourself. Examples:
- help you take a bath or shower
- go to the toilet
- help getting out of a chair or out of bed
- help walking around
- helping you get dressed
- helping you wash and comb your hair
- help cook your meals
- help you eat
- help you clean your house and do your laundry.
Professional Assessment and Monitoring
Help in your home from a nurse.
Help with healthy food choices from someone who is trained and has a license.
Lower the need for nurse visits and stop a higher level of care.
Respite
In-home and/or Out-of-home
To give the family a much needed break from ongoing care of a person.
Support Broker Services
To help a person know how to find, hire and fire, supervise and manage people who help them each day.
Temporary Residential Service
Partnership for Hope Waiver only
A place to stay when you can't be with your family for short periods. ( hours).
Transportation
Costs may be paid to help people access local places.
