Alternative Home Care Specialist

INDIVIDUALIZED AND FAMILY SUPPORT (IFS) DAY -

Assistance and prompting with personal hygiene, dressing, bathing, grooming, eating, toileting, ambulation or transfers, other personal care and behavioral support needs and any medical task which can be delegated.
Assistance and/or training in the performance of tasks related to maintaining a safe, healthy and stable home, such as housekeeping, bed making, dusting, vacuuming, laundry, cooking, evacuating the home in emergency situations, shopping, and money management. This does not include the cost of the supplies needed or the cost of the meals themselves.
Personal support and assistance in participating in community, health, and leisure activities. This may include accompanying the recipient to these activities.
Support and assistance in developing relationships with neighbors and others in the community and in strengthening existing informal social networks and natural supports.
Enabling and promoting individualized community supports targeted towards inclusion into meaningful integrated experiences. Volunteer work, community awareness activities and/or teaching.
Providing orientation and information to acute hospital nursing staff concerning the recipient's specific Activities of Daily Living (ADL's), communication positions, and behavioral needs.
Individualized and Family Support (IFS) services will be authorized during waking hours for up to 16 hours when natural supports are unavailable in order to provide continuity of services to the recipient.

INDIVIDUALIZED AND FAMILY SUPPORT (IFS) NIGHT -

Night hours are the period of time when the recipient is asleep and there is a reduced frequency and intensity of required assistance and are not limited to traditional night time hours.
The IFS-N must be awake, alert, immediately available and in the same residence as the recipient to be able to respond to the recipient's immediate needs.

SHARED SUPPORTS (SS) - DAY AND NIGHT -

Individualized and Family Support services can be shared by related waiver recipients who live together or up to three unrelated waiver recipients who choose to live together.
These services can be provided in a variety of settings and the waiver recipients may share IFS services staff when health and welfare can be assured for each recipient.

SUPPORTED INDEPENDENT LIVING (SIL) -

The residence of the recipient includes his/her apartment or own home provided the recipient does not live in the residence of any legally responsible relative(s) as defined in Individual and Family Supports.
SIL is assistance and/or training in the performance of tasks related to maintaining, acquiring, or improving skills, such as, but not limited to, personal grooming, bathing, housekeeping, bed making, dusting, vacuuming, laundry, cooking, shopping, and money management.
SIL will also assist with social, community, and adaptive skills necessary to enable the recipient to reside in the community of their choice and to participate as independently as possible, and to prevent institutionalization and/or divert him/her from becoming institutionalized.
SIL will also assist in obtaining financial aid, assistance in accessing other benefits available, advocacy and self-advocacy training as appropriate, and emergency support, providing trained staff and assisting the beneficiary to access other programs for which he/she qualifies.
SIL shall be coordinated with any services approved and may serve to reinforce skills or lessons taught in school, therapy, and other settings.

- ALL SERVICES ARE DEFINED BY LOUISIANA MEDICAID PROGRAM MANUAL