Attendant Care (ATC)

Service Description

Attendant Care provides a qualified individual to assist consumers with the support they need to remain in their homes and/or participate in work and community activities.

Service Requirements and Limitations

This service may be provided in the following settings:

• In the consumer’s home.
• In a direct state-contracted developmental home (where the licensee contracts directly with DDD), when a specific issue, problem, or concern is believed to be temporary or short-term and the service is approved by DDD.
• In the consumer’s community, while accompanying the consumer or assisting with activities such as shopping and picking up medications.

Service Goals

• To assist the consumer in maintaining safe and sanitary living conditions, personal cleanliness, and activities of daily living.
• To help the consumer remain in their home and/or participate in community activities.

Service Objectives

Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall ensure that the following objectives are met:

• Implement the consumer’s planning document based on the DDD assessment, which may include, but is not limited to, the following:
  • Meal preparation and clean-up (e.g., meal planning, food preparation, cooking, food storage, and washing dishes).
  • Eating and assistance with eating (e.g., prompts to eat slowly, proper positioning while eating, and monitoring for choking).
  • Bathing (e.g., transferring into the tub or shower, adjusting water temperature for safety, monitoring for drowning risks, and using assistive devices).
  • Dressing and grooming (e.g., oral hygiene, nail care, shaving, hair styling, and putting on assistive devices).
  • Toileting (e.g., bowel and bladder care).
  • Mobility.
  • Transferring.
  • Housekeeping, homemaking, and cleaning.
  • Laundry.
  • Shopping.
  • Attending to the needs of certified service animals.
  • Supervision, including behaviour intervention techniques or other skills identified in the consumer’s planning document.
  • Assisting the consumer in following their routine, based on the priorities identified in their planning document.
  • Providing appropriate attention to injuries and illnesses.
  • Maintaining skin integrity, including providing first aid and helping prevent pressure sores.
  • Referring consumers who present additional medical or social concerns during service delivery for appropriate follow-up.
  • Assisting with the self-administration of medication or providing medication reminders.
  • Assisting the consumer in maintaining safe and sanitary living conditions, as indicated in their planning document.
  • Under unusual circumstances, performing the following tasks:
    • To help maintain safe living conditions:
      • Heavy cleaning, such as washing walls or ceilings.
      • Yard work, such as cleaning the yard and hauling away debris.
    • Assisting the consumer in obtaining and/or maintaining basic necessities, including water, heating, and food.

Source: Arizona Department of Economic Security

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