At North Home Health Care LLC, we understand the importance of a comfortable and organized home environment for the elderly and others. Our compassionate homemaker services provide dedicated support with daily household tasks, from light cleaning to meal preparation. By taking care of these essential duties, we help create a serene and orderly space where you or your loved one can feel truly at ease. Trust us to bring care and comfort into your home, making life simpler and more enjoyable.

ELIGIBLE SERVICES

Four categories of homemaker services are eligible for payment from

Medical Assistance:

• Activities of daily living (ADLs)
• Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)
• Observation and redirection of behaviors
• Health-related procedures and tasks

A homemaker may assist in these four categories of homemaker services if the following criteria are met:

• The homemaker care plan describes the recipient’s needed assistance
• Training of the homemaker worker is specific to the person’s needs and occurs in the first 14 days of homemaker service for the person (unless person has homemaker Choice).
• Documentation of the individualized training regarding the needs of the recipient is in the agency file
• The homemaker worker documents services rendered on the time-sheet and/or in another agency form.

ELIGIBLE SERVICES

Adult companion services do not cover:

• Activity fees (e.g. movie tickets)
• Assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs)
• Hands-on nursing care
• Services provided by people related to the person by blood, marriage or adoption
• Socialization that is for recreation

Adult companion services cover services that help a person work toward a therapeutic or community integration goal in his or her support plan. The adult companion may:

• Attend a movie with the person to practice coping skills to manage his or her social anxiety
• Go with the person to a community event to reduce his or her social isolation
• Play a board game with the person to enhance his or her fine motor skills
• Provide verbal instructions or cues to the person to help him or her complete a task
• Assist or supervise the person with tasks such as laundry, light housekeeping, meal preparation and shopping (for more information, see the secondary information section).

Night Supervision services include:

• Carrying out a person’s positive support programming and transition plans
• Reinforcing independent living skills training and other skill development supports
• Assisting with instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs).

A person can receive night supervision services for no more than 12 hours in a 24-hour period.

A person cannot receive night supervision services if they duplicate other Minnesota state plan or waiver services he or she already receives.

DEFINITIONS

Night supervision services: Overnight assistance and monitoring provided by an awake staff in the person’s own home. Own home: For night supervision services, a person’s own home means a setting the person owns, rents or leases that is not operated, owned or leased by a provider of services or supports.

Individualized Home Supports (IHS) is a service for people who live in their own home or a family home and provides support and/or training in the home and community 

IHS without Training:

• Provides supports to adults or children in the home and community.
• Supports inclue assisting with community participation, assisting with health, safety, and wellness, general household management, and adaptive skills

A person is eligible to receive respite if the primary caregiver is absent or needs relief from his/her caregiver duties. See the following sections for additional program-specific primary caregiver requirements.

EC and EW

Under the AC program and EW, the primary caregiver must either:

• Not be paid at all
• Be paid only for a portion of the time he/she provides care/supervision to the person.

The primary caregiver does not need to live in the same house as the person who receives services.

BI, CAC, CADI and DD

Under the BI, CAC, CADI and DD waivers, the primary caregiver must both:

• Maintain his/her primary residence at the same address as the person.
• Be the owner or leaser of the primary residence.

DEFINITIONS

Respite: Short-term care services provided to a person when his/her primary caregiver is absent or needs relief.

Primary caregiver(s): Person or people principally responsible for the care and supervision of the person who receives services.

In-home respite: Respite provided in the person’s home or place of residence.

Out-of-home respite: Respite provided outside of the person’s home or place of residence.