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Ihe C enter originally targeted this service to individuals 60 years of age and older who needed some assistance with activities of daily living in order to remain in their own homes, but who failed to qualify for such assistance through other agencies or lacked sufficient resources to purchase care privately.
Although today that basic eligibility criteria remains the same, with more older persons being discharged earlier from hospitals as a result of changes in Medicare reimbursement policies, it has now become necessary in many cases to combine the efforts of several agencies in order to provide the level of in-home care ah individual may require.
The Center’s Homemaker-Home Health Aides are employed under a federally-supported program for older workers. Thus low-income, older persons who need employment benefit from the program as well as the elderly recipients of care. Workers are trained and supervised by a registered nurse w ho also visits referrals, assesses their need for assistance and works with the client to establish a care plan.
The nurse then assigns aides as needed to deliver the necessary care, which may include meal preparation and feeding, grocery shopping, bathing, assistance with exercises, and so on.
Professionally trained, the aides deliver personal care, which may oc- ‘ casionally include limited or light housekeeping duties, however, the program is neither intended nor designed as a housekeeping or cleaning service.
The Community Services Center also provides a program called Personal Care, which is funded by Medicaid and which offers many of the
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