Chapter 10: Personal Assistance and In-Home Services
Section 1: Personal Care and In-Home Services
Caregiver Guide to Senior Health Issues
Caring for elderly loved ones at home or in a nursing facility is commonplace, but figuring out how to do it well is a challenge faced by many families. Care.com's Caregiver Guide to Senior Health Issues offers expert advice to help you handle the everyday challenges caused by common senior illnesses and conditions.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Medicare Home Health
Home health care includes skilled nursing care , as well as other skilled care services, like physical and occupational therapy, speech-language pathology (therapy) services. Services may also include medical social services, and assistance from a home health aide (when needed by people also receiving skilled care).
These services are provided by a variety of health care professionals in your home. The home health staff provides and helps coordinate the care and/or therapy your doctor orders. In support of your doctor's orders, home health staff develop a care plan, which is a written plan for your care. It tells what services you will get to reach and keep your best physical, mental, and social well being. You have a right to participate in planning your care and treatment. The home health staff keeps your doctor up-to-date on how you are doing and updates your care plan as needed. Home health agencies cannot make changes to the care your doctor orders for you without your doctor's knowledge and permission.
Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans cover some medically necessary home health care. If you meet certain conditions, Medicare covers part-time skilled nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, home health aide services, medical social services, durable medical equipment (such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, oxygen, and walkers), medical supplies, and other services.
The Medicare Home Health benefit provides skilled nursing and some other health services in the home. To be eligible a person must be on Medicare. To receive home health visits:
- The doctor must approve and write a plan for your care at home;
- You must need intermittent skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy or speech-language pathology services;
- You must be homebound, that is, unable to leave home at all without great difficulty (usually medical trips, church and beauty shop are the only trips permissible); and
- The agency providing your home care must be approved by Medicare.
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Cleaning for a Reason
Email: [email protected]
Any woman with cancer receiving chemotherapy treatments can get her house cleaned monthly for four months while she is in treatment.
The process to sign up starts at noon Central Time Monday through Thursday and accept a maximum of 50 applications each day Monday through Thursday, to Cleaning for a Reason Patient Application and have the doctor fax a note confirming the treatment. Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service in your zip code area arrange for the service. This organization serves the entire USA and currently has 547 partners to help these women.
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Oklahoma Department of Human Services - Aging Services Division
The Aging Services Division (ASD) helps develop systems that support independence and help protect the quality of life for older persons as well as promotes citizen involvement in planning and delivering services.
Services:
Adult Day Services
ADvantage Services
Legal Assistance
Oklahoma Senior Corps Program
Personal Care Program
Respite services
Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP)
State Plan Personal Care
Transportation
Other available programs include homemaker, chore and medication management.
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Oklahoma Department of Human Services - Developmental Disabilities Services
Email: [email protected]
This division's mission is to help individuals with developmental disabilities and their families help themselves to lead safer, healthier, more independent and productive lives.
Developmental Disabilities Services (DDS) serves persons ages 3 and up who have a primary diagnosis of intellectual disabilities. Persons served may also have other developmental disabilities in addition to intellectual disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, etc.
Community Waiver includes a comprehensive array of services including residential, employment and habilitation services and supports for individuals 3 years of age or older. The Community Waiver provides services appropriate to the individual's needs. Using a person-centered planning approach, the individual's team assesses the needs of the individual and develops an annual plan of care to address those needs.
In-Home Supports Waivers (IHSW) allow individuals and families to select services necessary for each individual to remain in his or her own home or family home. Individuals on the IHSW are assigned to Developmental Disabilities Services (DDS) case managers to assist them in locating, securing, and coordinating needed services.
Eligible children, ages 3 through 17, may receive needed services through the IHSW-Children. Eligible adults, 18 years or older, may receive needed services through the IHSW-Adult. These waivers are not cash payment programs and all services are provided through agencies contracting with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.
Eligible children, ages 3 through 17, may receive up to $12,360 of services per year through the IHSW-Children. Eligible adults, 18 years or older, may receive up to $18,540 of services per year through the IHSW-Adult. These waivers are not cash payment programs and all services are provided through agencies contracting with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.
Guardianship services are provided to adults with Intellectual Disability (ID) who receive DDS services. Not all people with ID require a guardian but those who do can benefit from the advocacy and decision making a guardian provides.
Family Support Assistance payments - This is a cash payment program for families who are caring for children under age 18 at home. In this program, families can receive payments of $250-$400 per month depending on the number of children with disabilities in the home. Families who meet the income eligibility may choose this cash payment in lieu of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waiver (HCBW) Services.
Group Homes offer living arrangements for 6 to 12 people who share a home and receive up to 24 hours per day of supervision, support, and training in daily living skills. Group Home residents are 18 years of age or older and are provided community living services. Group Homes are single-family homes located in the community close to other services and activities. The home is owned or leased by a private agency. The agency receives reimbursement from Developmental Disabilities Services (DDS) for supervising and supporting the residents of the home.
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Visiting Angels in Edmond
Visiting Angels Senior Care and In Home Assisted Living Services can assist elderly people located in Edmond, NW OKC, Jones, Guthrie and Stillwater Territories and surrounding areas in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
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Visiting Angels in Midwest City
Servicing the greater Midwest City, Shawnee, OK and south to Norman. Some of the services provided include:
- Hygiene Assistance
- Meal preparation/Diet monitoring
- Light housekeeping
- Errands and Shopping
- Joyful companionship
- Live in, Live- out, sleep-over
- Mornings, mid-day, evenings
- Temporary or Long term
- Weekends, holidays
- Respite for family caregivers
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Visiting Angels in Owasso
Serving Tulsa, Owasso, Broken Arrow, Jenks and Bixby. Contact Tulsa center for information about Owasso location.
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Visiting Angels in Tulsa
Servicing the Tulsa Metro Area. Some of the services provided include:
- Hygiene Assistance
- Meal preparation/Diet monitoring
- Light housekeeping
- Errands and Shopping
- Joyful companionship
- Live in, Live- out, sleep-over
- Mornings, mid-day, evenings
- Temporary or Long term
- Weekends, holidays
- Respite for family caregivers
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Visiting Angels in Yukon
Serving the Greater Oklahoma City Area and West to Yukon and El Reno, OK.