Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 1426 - SENIOR COMPANION PROGRAM
Section 17-1426-7 - Scope of senior companion services
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 17-1426-7
Current through February, 2024
(a) The senior companion's services to clients may include, but shall not be limited to the following:
(1) Socialization and recreation,
such as arranging social contacts with other people, revitalizing family ties,
reading, writing letters, teaching arts and crafts;
(2) Assisting in obtaining social services,
such as information on senior housing, supplemental income, food stamps,
registering in a nutrition program;
(3) Personal and health services, such as
assisting with personal grooming and hygiene, helping with prescribed physical
therapy, providing escort service to the doctor; or
(4) Assisting with home management, such as
meal planning and preparation, shopping, or paying bills.
(b) Senior companions shall not perform services such as:
(1) Housework that
ordinarily would be performed by household members, homemakers, or paid
domestic help, such as washing and ironing clothes, scrubbing walls and floors,
washing windows;
(2) Activities
usually performed by doctors or nurses;
(3) Signing legal papers for
recipients;
(4) Personal services
to families apart from client-related activities;
(5) Extensive home repair
activities;
(6) Activities
detrimental to senior companions;
(7) Activities not defined in the care plan;
and
(8) Work of any type for which
monetary or other reimbursement is received from the client.
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