Personal Care Defined

Personal care means services provided to a service recipient who does not require chronic or convalescent medical or nursing care. Personal care is the safekeeping and supervision of the service recipient’s self-administration of prescription medication along with any of the following services: (1) responsibility for the safety of the service recipient, (2) a daily awareness by the management and staff of the service recipient’s functioning, (3) knowledge of his or her whereabouts, (4) reminding a service recipient of appointments, (5) the ability and readiness to intervene if a crisis arises for a service recipient, and/or (6) supervision in the following areas for the service recipient’s major life activities, self-care, self- direction, capacity for independent living or economic self-sufficiency.