Haw. Code R. § 17-1426-7

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.

Haw. Code R. § 17-1426-7

[Eff JUN 29 1992; am 9/16/92] (Auth: HRS § 346-56) (Imp: 45 C.F.R. §1207.3-5)