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Home and Community Based Services Manual

Tasks

Home and Community Based Services Manual


Tasks

CDS provides “hands-on” assistance with physical tasks that benefit the participant and are based on the participant's physical limitations. No time can be authorized for the following:

  • Stand-by assistance, prompting, or cueing
  • Respite care or for time spent waiting for a participant at any appointment

CDS may include any of the following tasks:

  • Assistance with Transfer Device
    • Use an assistive device for transfers
  • Bathing
    • Direct assistance with bathing and shampooing hair that requires active participation by the aide (e.g., hands-on washing assistance, assistance in or out of the bath, gathering supplies/clean clothing, etc.)
  • Bowel/bladder
    • o Administration of prescribed bowel programs, including the use of suppositories and sphincter stimulation per protocol and pre-packaged enemas for participants without contraindicating rectal or intestinal conditions
  • Catheter hygiene:
    • Changing bags and soap and water hygiene around the site of external, indwelling, and suprapubic catheters.
    • Removal of external catheters, inspect skin, and reapply catheter
  • Change linens
  • Clean bath
  • Clean floors
  • Clean kitchen
  • Cleaning/maintaining equipment
    • Wheelchairs, bedside commodes, shower chairs and nebulizer machines, etc
  • Dressing/grooming:
    • Direct assistance with dressing and undressing, combing hair, nail care, oral hygiene, shaving, and assisting with prosthetics
  • Essential correspondence
  • Essential transportation, including all essential shopping/errands (regardless if the participant is with the CDS attendant), medical appointments, school, or employment, etc.
    • For the participant to be eligible for transportation assistance, there must also be an identified need for personal care assistance, even if that need is met by supports other than CDS.
    • CDS Transportation does not include transporting to medical appointments when that appointment is covered under the Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) program. To determine if NEMT covers the medical appointment, contact the NEMT provider at 1-866-269-5927.
  • Laundry (home)
  • Laundry (off-site)
  • Make bed
  • Meal prep/eating
    • Direct assistance with meal preparation, feeding and clean up.
  • Medications
    • Direct assistance with medications (e.g., the time spent handling the medication container, including inhalers, medication for nebulizers, ointments/lotions, steadying the participant’s hand/arm to get oral medication and inhalants to mouth, and water to the participant)
  • Mobility/transfer
    • Direct assistance with mobility, transfer, and ambulation when the participant can at least partially bear their weight
  • Ostomy hygiene
    • Changing bags and soap and water hygiene around an ostomy site (including tracheostomies, gastrostomies, and colostomies, all with a well-healed stoma)
  • Passive Range of Motion
    • Passive range of motion (non-resistive flexion of joint within normal range) delivered in accordance with the care plan
  • Tidy and Dust
  • Toileting
    • Direct assistance with toileting tasks. This may include assistance using or transferring to/from the toilet, commode, bedpan, urinal, cleansing after use and assistance with incontinence episode(s). (The suggested time is 5 minutes multiplied by the number of times assistance is given per day based upon the suggested frequency needed)
  • Trash
  • Treatments
    • Eye drops, rubbing creams or lotions that are prescribed or non-prescribed
  • Turning/positioning
  • Wash dishes

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