Current through November, 2024
Section 17-1426-7 - Scope of senior companion services(a) The senior companion's services to clients may include, but shall not be limited to the following: (1) Socialization and recreation, such as arranging social contacts with other people, revitalizing family ties, reading, writing letters, teaching arts and crafts;(2) Assisting in obtaining social services, such as information on senior housing, supplemental income, food stamps, registering in a nutrition program;(3) Personal and health services, such as assisting with personal grooming and hygiene, helping with prescribed physical therapy, providing escort service to the doctor; or(4) Assisting with home management, such as meal planning and preparation, shopping, or paying bills.(b) Senior companions shall not perform services such as: (1) Housework that ordinarily would be performed by household members, homemakers, or paid domestic help, such as washing and ironing clothes, scrubbing walls and floors, washing windows;(2) Activities usually performed by doctors or nurses;(3) Signing legal papers for recipients;(4) Personal services to families apart from client-related activities;(5) Extensive home repair activities;(6) Activities detrimental to senior companions;(7) Activities not defined in the care plan; and(8) Work of any type for which monetary or other reimbursement is received from the client.[Eff JUN 29 1992; am 9/16/92] (Auth: HRS § 346-56) (Imp: 45 C.F.R. §1207.3-5)