What are PCA’s Services?
The personal care assistance program provides services to persons who need help with day-to-day activities. This allows them to be more independent in their own home. A personal care assistant is an individual trained to help person(s) with basic daily routines. A PCA may be able to help you if you have a physical, emotional or mental disability, a chronic illness or an injury.
What services can a personal care assistant provide?
-Personal care assistance services must be medically necessary and ordered by a physician. A person must need help to complete activities of daily living; have health-related tasks or need observation and redirection of behavior to use these:
- Observation and redirection of behavior (includes monitoring of behavior)
- Registered Supervision Nursing Services
- Delegated tasks to unlicensed personnel
- Hands-on assistance with transfers and mobility
- Providing eating assistance for clients with complicating eating problems (i.e. difficulty swallowing, recurrent lung aspirations, or requiring the use of a tube, parental or intravenous instruments)
- Complex or Specialty Healthcare Services
- Assistance with dressing, self-feeding, oral hygiene, hair care, grooming, toileting, and bathing
- Providing standby assistance within arm’s reach for safety while performing daily activities
- Providing verbal or visual reminders to take regularly scheduled medication (includes bringing clients previously set-up medication, medication in original containers, or liquid or food to accompany the medication)
- Providing verbal or visual reminders to the client to perform regularly scheduled treatments and exercises
- Preparing modified diets ordered by licensed health professional
- Laundry
- Housekeeping/Other household chores
- Meal preparation
- Shopping
