At Embrace Hope, we offer Attendant Care (ATC). This service provides the needed services for a qualified individual to remain in their home and participate in work or community activities. The goals of this service are to assist the individual to attain or maintain safe and sanitary living conditions, as well as personal cleanliness and activities of daily living, and to assist them to remain at home and integrate into their community.
Attendant Care Services
Our care providers implement the individual’s service plan based on the DDD’s assessment, which may include, but is not limited to:
- Meal preparation and clean-up (meal planning, food preparation, cooking, storing food, cleaning the dishes)
- Assistance with eating (prompts to eat slowly, proper positioning while eating, monitoring for choking)
- Bathing (transferring into the tub or shower, adjusting water temperature for safety, monitoring for drowning risk, use of assistive devices)
- Dressing and grooming (oral hygiene, nail care, shaving, hair styling, putting on assistive devices)
- Toileting (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 (prevention of pressure sores)
- Referring for appropriate action on all individuals 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 individual’s support plan
In unusual circumstances, the following tasks may be performed:
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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.
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