Agency-Directed Personal Care Services
(SHC)
Personal Care
Services are provided by an agency
(not-self-directed by the person receiving services) to
assist a person living with someone meeting the definition
of family or in one of the following settings:
a setting where a child,
5 to 21 years of age, is in
custody but not living with someone meeting
the definition of family
or a
setting in which a child, 15 years of age or older,
resides with a person who does not meet the definition
of family and who has not been appointed the legal
guardian or custodian. These Services are individualized (one-to-one) services that provide
direct assistance with:
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Daily
living / personal adjustment
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Attendant care
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Assistance
with medications that are ordinarily self-administered
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Accessing medical care
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Supervision / Reporting changes in condition & needs
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Extension of therapy services
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Ambulation and exercise
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Household services essential to health care at home
or performed in conjunction with assistance in daily
living (such as shopping, preparing & cleaning up
meals, bathing, using appliances, dressing, feeding,
making the bed, laundry, & Cleaning the
bathroom & kitchen
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