Assistance with Homemaking or Companion Care:

Can include meal preparation, light housekeeping, laundry and linen washing, incidental transportation to doctor appointments, grocery shopping, errands, etc.
The homemaker-companion can perform casual cosmetic assistance such as, brushing the client’s hair, assisting with makeup, filing and polishing nails but not clipping nails, stabilize the client when walking, as needed, by holding the clients arm or hand.

Home Health Aide – CNA :  May provide assistance with the duties of the homemaker/companion as well as activities listed below:

Ambulation:
Providing physical support to enable a patient to move about within or outside of patient’s place of residence.  Physical support includes holding the patient’s hand, elbow, under the arm, or holding on to a support belt worn by the patient (Gait Belt) to assist in providing stability or direction while the patient ambulates.

Bathing: 
Helping the patient in and out of the bathtub or shower, being available while the patient is bathing, washing and drying the patient, applying lotion.

Dressing:
Helping patients who require assistance with putting on and removing clothing.

Eating: 
Helping patients who require assistance with feeding themselves.

Personal Hygiene: 
Helping the patient with shaving.  Assisting with oral, hair, skin and nail care.

Toileting: 
Reminding the patient about using the toilet, assisting the patient to the bathroom, helping to undress, positioning on the commode, helping with related personal hygiene, including assistance with changing an adult brief.  Also includes assisting the patient with positioning on the bedpan and helping with related personal hygiene.

Assistance with physical transfer: 
Providing verbal and physical cueing, physical assistance, or both, while the patient moves from one position to another.  For example, between the following: a bed, chair, wheelchair, commode, bathtub or shower, or from a standing position.  A transfer could also include the use of a mechanical lift, if a home health aide is trained in its use.

Medication/Pill Box set up:  ( Licensed Nurse )
a.  Weekly or every two weeks