10A NCAC 71R .0911. IN‑HOME AIDE SERVICES

In‑home aide services are provided to enable individuals and families to remain in or return to their own homes and communities.  To this end, at least one level of this service must be available in each geographic area.

(1)           Primary Service.  In‑Home Aide Services are those paraprofessional services which assist individuals and children and their families with essential home management tasks, personal care tasks, or supervision, or all of the tasks in this Paragraph, to enable individuals and children and their families to remain, and function effectively, in their own homes as long as possible.

(2)           Component.  In‑Home Aide Services may be used for the purpose of providing respite for a primary caregiver or for parents.  For this purpose, In‑Home Aide Services may be provided to individuals in their own homes or in the home of their primary caregiver and to children and their families in their own homes.  Respite Care may consist of any level of home management or personal care tasks.

(3)           Resource Items.  None.

(4)           Target Population.  Individuals who are unable to carry out tasks essential to the activities of daily living or the instrumental activities of daily living, or both, who have no responsible person available to perform these tasks, and who need the service in order to remain in their own homes.  Children and their families who need help remaining in their own homes, or who need help in maintaining, strengthening, and safeguarding their functioning because of economic dependency, physical or emotional illness or handicap or to preserve and strengthen family functioning.  Also included are children and functionally impaired individuals whose primary caregivers or parents need relief from everyday caregiving responsibilities in order for the children and impaired individuals to remain at home.  Within the target population eligible clients must be served in the following order of priority:

(a)           adults and children for whom the need for protective services has been substantiated and the service is needed as part of a protective services plan;

(b)           adults who are at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation and children who are at risk of abuse, neglect, or dependency;

(c)           adults with extensive ADL or IADL impairment who are at risk of placement in substitute care and children who are at risk of placement in substitute care;

(d)           children who need the service as part of a plan of preventive services designed to strengthen the family and preserve the home for the child, or as a part of permanency planning to enable a child to return home from substitute care; and adults with three or more ADL or IADL impairments;

(e)           adults with one or two ADL or IADL impairments.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 143B‑153;

Eff. July 1, 1979;

Amended Eff. July 1, 1982; October 1, 1981; October 1, 1980; October 1, 1979;

Transferred from T10.43D .0238 Eff. July 1, 1983;

Amended Eff. December 1, 1991; May 1, 1985; July 1, 1984.