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SERVICES AVAILABLE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII Provides personal assistance, stand-by assistance, supervision or cues for persons with the inability to perform one or more of the following activities of daily living: eating, dressing, bathing, tilting, and transferring in and out of bed/chair and walking. Homemaker: Provides assistance to persons with inability to perform one or more of the following instrumental activities of daily living: preparing meals, shopping for personal items, managing money, using the telephone or doing light housework. Chore: Provides assistance to persons having difficulty with one or more of the following instrumental activities of daily living: heavy housework, yard work or sidewalk maintenance. Home Delivered Meals: Provides nourishing meals to an eligible client or other eligible participants at the client's residence or the caregiver's home which comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Adult Day Care: Provides personal care for dependent adults in a supervised, protective, congregate setting during some portion of a twenty-four hour day. Services offered in conjunction of adult day care typically include social and recreational activities, training, counseling, and meals for adult day care. Assisted Transportation: Provides transportation with assistance door-to-door, to a person who has difficulties (physical or cognitive) using regular vehicular transportation. It may include escort services. Case Management: Provides assistance to clients, families and/or caregivers to engage in a problem solving process of identifying needs, exploring options and mobilizing informal as well as formal supports to achieve the highest possible level of client independence. Assistance include assessing needs, developing care plans, implementing care plans, providing service linkage (securing services, arranging services, coordinating the provisions of services among providers), monitoring, and providing follow-up and reassessment, as needed. Congregate Meals: Provides nutritional meals to an eligible client or other eligible participant at a nutrition site, senior center or some other congregate setting, a meal which comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Nutrition Counseling: Provides individualized advice and guidance to individuals, who are at nutritional risk, because of their health or nutritional history, dietary intake, medications use or chronic illnesses, about options and methods for improving their nutritional status, performed by a health professional in accordance with state law and policy. Transportation: Provides a means of transportation for a person who requires help in going from one location to another, using a vehicle. Does not include any other activity. Legal Assistance: Provides legal advice, counseling and representation by an attorney or other person acting under the supervision of an attorney. Nutrition Education: Promotes better health by providing accurate and culturally sensitive nutrition, physical fitness, or health (as it relates to nutrition) information and instruction to participants and care givers in a group or individual setting overseen by a dietitian or individual of comparable expertise. Information and Assistance: (A) Provides the individuals with current information on opportunities and services available to the individuals within their communities, including information relating to assistive technology; (B) assess the problems and capacities of the individuals; (C) links the individuals to the opportunities and services that are available; and (D) to the maximum extent practicable, ensures that the individuals receive the services needed by the individuals, and are aware of the opportunities available to the individuals, by establishing adequate follow-up procedures. Outreach: Interventions initiated by an agency or organization for the purpose of identifying potential clients and encouraging their use of existing services and benefits. Escort: The service provides a person to accompany an older person from one point to another to provide protection or to personally assist an older person to obtain a service. This service does not include transportation. (Escort service with transportation must be reported under "assisted transportation." If two service providers are involved, one providing escort, and another, transportation, treat both as separate service.) Hospice Volunteer Training and Services: Provides quality care for terminally ill older adults, their families in the comfort and privacy of their own homes by creating caring environment. Health Promotion, Health Maintenance and Wellness Program: Provides support and assistance to older persons to maintain an independent lifestyle, including health screening to detect and/or prevent illnesses and monitoring chronic conditions and follow up. Friendly Visiting: Provides planned visits on a regular, scheduled basis to persons age 60 and over living at home or in institutions to help reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation, and reassure safety and well-being. Telephone Reassurance: Making phone calls on a regular scheduled basis in order to provide comfort or help, and/or to check on their well-being and safety to an eligible older persons who may be homebound, who live alone, or who are temporarily alone. Education and Training: Provides instructional sessions and seminars through either formal or informal methods which assist the older persons to acquire knowledge and skills for vocational improvement, personal/social enrichment and to better cope with life situations. Multipurpose Senior Center: The Center is a community facility for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of services, which include, but not limited to, health (including mental health), social, nutritional, and educational services and a facility for recreational activities for older individuals. Top of Page |
