Ample levels and types of support for our clients.
Service Description:
A service that provides a qualified individual to supply needed services in order for an individual to remain in his/her home and/or participate in work/community activities.
Service Requirements and Limitations
- This service may be provided in the following settings:
- In the consumer’s home.
- In a direct state-contracted developmental home (where the licensee contracts directly with DDD) when there is a specific issue, problem, or concern that is believed to be temporary or short-term and approved by DDD.
- In the consumer’s community while accompanying the consumer or while shopping/picking up medications.
Service Goals:
- To assist the consumer to attain or maintain safe and sanitary living conditions and/or maintain personal cleanliness and activities of daily living.
- To assist the consumer to remain in his/her home and/or participate in community activities.
Service Objectives:
Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall ensure that the following objectives are met:
- Implement the consumer’s planning document based on the DDD’s assessment, which may include, but is not limited to:
- Meal preparation and clean-up (e.g., meal planning, food preparation, cooking, storing food, cleaning the dishes);
- Eating and assistance with eating (e.g., prompts to eat slowly, proper positioning while eating, monitoring for choking);
- Bathing (e.g., transferring into the tub or shower, adjusting water temperature for safety, monitoring for drowning risk, use of assistive devices);
- Dressing and grooming (e.g., oral hygiene, nail care, shaving, hair styling, putting on assistive devices);
- Toileting (e.g., bowel and bladder care);
- Mobility;
- Transferring;
- Housekeeping/homemaker and cleaning;
- Laundry;
- Shopping;
- Attending to certified service animal needs;
- Supervision, including behavior intervention techniques or other skills as identified on the consumer’s planning document;
- Assisting the consumer in following his or her routine as determined by the priorities as identified on the consumer’s planning document;
- Assisting in providing appropriate attention to injury and illness;
- Maintaining skin integrity including the provision of first aid (i.e., prevention of pressure sores);
- Referring for appropriate action all consumers who present additional medical or social problems during the course of the service delivery;
- Assisting with self-administration of medication(s) or medication reminders;
- Assistance to attain or maintain safe and sanitary living conditions as indicated in the consumer’s planning document;
- In unusual circumstances, the following tasks may be performed:
- To attain safe living conditions:
- Heavy cleaning, such as washing walls or ceilings, and
- Yard work, such as cleaning the yard and hauling away debris.
- To assist the consumer in obtaining and/or caring for basic material needs for water, heating, and food.
- To attain safe living conditions:
Source: https://des.az.gov/
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