quality apd services

Personal supports services provide assistance and training to the recipient in activities of daily living, such as eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, and preparation of meals. Services also include non-medical care, and supervision. 

This service can provide access to community-based activities that cannot be provided by natural or unpaid community supports and are likely to result in an increased ability to access community resources without paid support.

These  services provide relief to the caregiver and are incorporated into the personal support service. The provider, to the extent properly qualified and licensed, assists in maintaining a recipient’s own home and property as a clean, sanitary and safe environment. This service is provided in support of a goal including the support plan or an identified need to support or maintain basic health and safety and is not purely diversional in nature. 

Additionally

this service is generally used due to a brief planned or emergency absence, or when the primary caregiver is available, but temporarily physically unable to care for or supervise the recipient for a brief period of time.

Companion services consist of non-medical care, supervision, and socialization activities provided to recipients age 21 years or older. This service must be provided in direct relation to the achievement of the recipient’s goals as specified in the recipient’s support plan. The service provides access to community-based activities that cannot be provided by natural or other unpaid supports, and should be defined as activities most likely to result in increased ability to access community resources without paid support. 

These services can be scheduled on a regular, long-term basis.  

Activities can be volunteer activities performed by the recipient as a pre-work activity or activities that connect a recipient to the community.