| Title |
Description |
| Adult
Day Service (ADS) |
Definition: Adult Day Service (ADS) is a non-residential, community-based service designed to meet the needs of functionally and/or cognitively impaired older adults through an individualized care plan that encourages optimal capacity for self-care and/or maximizes functional abilities. ADS consists of structured, comprehensive and continually supervised components that are provided in a protective setting. Consumers who receive ADS attend on a planned basis during specified hours. |
| Chore
Service |
Definition: Chore is a service designed to improve, restore, or maintain a clean, sanitary and safe living environment through the performance of tasks in the home that are beyond the consumer’s capability , and the removal of hazards posing a threat to the consumer’s health and welfare. Chore services are provided only in cases where neither the consumer, nor anyone else in the household, is capable of performing or financially providing for the services, and where no relative, caregiver, landlord, community/volunteer agency, or third party payer is capable of or responsible for their provision. |
| Emergency
Response System (ERS) |
Definition: Emergency Response System (ERS) is a service designed to monitor consumer safety and provide consumers with access to emergency crisis intervention for medical or environmental emergencies through the provision of communication connection systems. A person may also wear a portable “help” button to allow for mobility. The system is connected to the person’s phone and programmed to signal a response center once a “help” button is activated. The response center is staffed by individuals trained to respond to emergencies. ERS services are limited to those individuals who live alone, or who are alone for significant parts of the day and have no regular caregiver for extended periods of time. |
| Home
Delivered Meals (HDM) |
Definition: Home-delivered meal is a service designed to provide consumers with one to two safe and nutritious meals per day that meet the current dietary guidelines for Americans and the recommended dietary allowances (RDA) and dietary reference intakes (DRI). |
| Homemaker
Service (HMK) |
Definition: Homemaker (HMK) is a service designed to enable a consumer to achieve and maintain a clean, safe and healthy environment, assist the consumer to manage personal appointments and day-to-day household activities as authorized by the case manager, and ensure that the consumer maintains the consumer’s current living arrangement. HMK service consists of general household care when the individual regularly responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to manage the home. HMK staff may act as travel attendants for a consumer. |
| Home
Medical Equipment and Supplies |
Definition: Home medical equipment and supplies (HME) is a service designed to promote functional independence and safe, effective, in-home care through the provision of health-related equipment and supplies. The equipment items and/or supplies eligible to be purchased, installed and/or rented through this service are those items that enable the consumer to function with greater independence in the home and help prevent the consumer’s placement in a nursing facility. |
| Independent
Living Assistance Service (ILA) |
Definition: Independent Living Assistance (ILA) is a service that consists of activities that assist consumers to manage their households, handle their personal affairs, self-administer medications, and help ensure that consumers retain their community living arrangements and avoid institutionalization due to loss of shelter or other essential environmental services. There are three types of ILA services: telephone support, in-person support activities and travel attendant activities. |
| Minor
Home Modification, Maintenance, and Repair Service |
Definition: Minor home modification, maintenance and repair service (MHM) provides environmental accessibility adaptations to the structural elements of the interior or exterior of a consumer’s place of residence that enable the consumer to function with greater independence in the home and remain in the community safely. Modifications, maintenance and repairs that are excluded from this service are those adaptations or improvements to the home that are of general utility and not of direct medical or remedial benefit to the consumer, such as carpeting, roof, replacement, central air conditioning, and adaptations which add to the total square footage of the home etc. |
| Nutritional
Consultation Service |
Definition: Nutritional Consultation, also known as medical nutrition therapy, is a service designed to provide individualized guidance on appropriate food and nutrient intakes for consumers with special needs. Nutritional consultation takes into consideration the consumer’s desires, health, cultural and socioeconomic background, and any functional and psychological factors, including home and caregiver resources. Unless authorized by the consumer/caregiver and the case manager, the provider must deliver this service in the consumer’s residence. |
| Personal
Care Service (PCS) |
Definition: Personal Care is a service designed to enable a consumer to achieve optimal functioning with ADLs and IADLs, and includes personal care services and homemaking tasks appropriate to a consumer’s needs. Personal care services must be provided in the consumer’s current place of residence. |
| Pest
Control Service |
Definition: Pest control is a service designed to improve, restore, or maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe living environment through the performance of tasks in the home that are beyond the consumer’s capability and the removal of pests posing a threat to the consumer’s health and welfare. |
| Social
Work Counseling Service |
Definition: Social work counseling is a service designed to facilitate consumer adjustment when the consumer’s physical, social and emotional well being is threatened. Services may be provided for caregiver/ family members, in conjunction with consumer, when the purpose of the service is to enable the caregiver/ family members to function better together with consumer or the purpose is related to the consumer’s care. |
| Transportation |
Definition: May be provided to and from medical appointments if alternate community resources are not available. |
