These are services that help a person manage general cleaning and household activities. There are three homemaker services:

• Homemaker/cleaning
• Homemaker/home management
• Homemaker/assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs)

Homemaker/cleaning services include light housekeeping tasks, laundry services, meal prep, shopping for food, clothing and household supplies, simple household repairs, and arranging transportation.

Homemaker/assistance with ADLs includes light housekeeping and assistance with walking, bathing, dressing, grooming, eating and toileting.

Adult companion services are non-medical services that help a person 18 or older work toward a therapeutic or community goal through skill building and socialization. Examples include working on coping skills to manage anxiety, participating in the community to reduce social isolation, or providing verbal instructions to help the person complete a task. This service is available under the Alternative Care / Elderly Waiver, Brain Injury Waiver (BI), Community Alternative Care Waiver (CAC), and the Community Access for Disability Inclusion waiver (CADI) Waiver programs.

This service provides overnight assistance and monitoring by an awake staff in the person’s own home and includes carrying out a person’s positive support programming and transition plans, reinforcing independent living skills training and other skill development supports and assisting with instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). This service is available under the Brain Injury Waiver (BI), Community Alternative Care Waiver (CAC), the Community Access for Disability Inclusion waiver (CADI) and the Developmental Disabilities waiver programs.