Home Care Services
Providing professional, licensed, and background checked care givers in Cook, Lake, & Dupage counties.
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Home - Exercise And Physical Assistance
Assist clients with ambulation.
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Assist a client with dressing. This may include assistance with ordinary clothing and application of support stockings of the type that can be purchased without a physician's prescription.
Assist a client with dressing. This may include assistance with ordinary clothing and application of support stockings of the type that can be purchased without a physician's prescription.
03
Assistance with feeding. When the client can independently swallow and be positioned upright.
04
Assist a client with positioning when the client is able to identify to the personal care staff, either verbally, non-verbally or through others, when the position needs to be changed, only when skilled skin care, as previously described, is not required in conjunction with the positioning. Positioning may include simple alignment in a bed, wheelchair, or other furniture.
05
Assist with transfers only when the client has sufficient balance and strength to reliably stand and pivot and assist with the transfer to some extent. Adaptive and safety equipment may be used in transfers, provided that the client is fully trained in the use of the equipment and can direct the transfer step by step. Adaptive equipment may include, but is not limited to, wheelchairs, tub seats, and grab bars. Gait belts may be used as a safety device for the home services worker as long as the worker has been properly trained in their use. A home services worker shall not assist with transfers when the client is unable to assist with the transfer. Home services workers may assist clients in the use of a mechanical or electrical transfer device only when the following conditions are met:
i) The home services worker must have been trained in the use of the mechanical or electrical transfer device by the licensed agency;
ii) The client or client representative must be able to direct the transfer step by step; and
iii) The agency must have conducted a competency evaluation of the worker using the type of device that is available in the home.
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