Family One® Supportive Home  Care provides supportive home care (SHC) to ages 12 and older adults with personal assistance services, household/chore services, or both in their home. 

Family One® Supportive Home Care services, includes:

Personal assistance

• • Hands-on assistance with activities of daily living, such as dressing/undressing, bathing, eating, toileting, assistance with mobility/ambulation/transferring (including the use of a walker, cane, etc.)

  • Direct assistance with instrumental activities of daily living, such as meal preparation and serving, medication management and treatments that are normally self-administered, care of eyeglasses or hearing aids, housekeeping, money management, laundry and/or chores, telephone/internet use, shopping, personal assistance on the job and in non-employment community activities and using transportation as well as observation or cueing of the members to safely and appropriately complete activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. Providing supervision necessary for member safety. 

Household/Chore services

• Routine housekeeping and cleaning activities performed for a member consisting of tasks that take place on a daily, weekly, or other regular basis. These may include washing dishes, laundry, dusting, vacuuming, food purchasing, meal preparation, shopping, cleaning of areas of the home necessary to provide personal assistance and similar activities that do not involve hands-on care of the member. 

• Intermittent major household tasks that must be performed seasonally or in response to some natural or other periodic event, or for reasons of health and safety. These may include outdoor activities such as yard work and snow removal; indoor activities such as window washing, cleaning of attics and basements, cleaning of carpets, rugs, and drapery, and refrigerator/freezer defrosting; and the necessary cleaning of vehicles, wheelchairs, and other adaptive equipment; and home modifications such as ramps.