Specifications include, but are not limited to: Personal Care Servicesfor adults with severe and persistent mental health issues and co-occurring substance useissues throughout the State of Delaware; Personal Care services are aimed at assisting the beneficiary with completing ADLs that wouldbe performed independently if they had no disability. These services include:•Care to assist with daily living activities (e.g., eating, bathing, dressing, personalhygiene), cueing to prompt the beneficiary to perform a task and providing supervisionto assist a beneficiary who cannot be safely left alone;•Health maintenance, such as bowel and bladder routines, ostomy care, catheter,wound care and range of motion, as indicated in the beneficiary's Recovery Plan andpermitted under applicable State requirements.•Routine support services, such as meal planning, keeping of medical appointments,and other health regimens needed to support the beneficiary;•Care and implementation of prescribed therapies;•Overnight personal care services to provide intermittent or ongoing awake, overnightcare to a beneficiary in their home for up to eight hours. Overnight personal careservices require awake staff.Personal care may include care with the following activities when incidental to personal careand necessary to complete ADLs:•Activities that are incidental to the delivery of the personal care to assure the health,welfare, and safety of the beneficiary such as changing linens, doing the dishesassociated with the preparation of a meal, laundering of towels from bathing, may beprovided and must not comprise the majority of the service.•Services to accompany the beneficiary into the community for purposes related topersonal care, such as shopping in a grocery store, picking up medications andproviding care with any of the activities noted above to enable the completion of thosetasks.
