FREE HOME HELP CARE IF YOU HAVE THE MICHIGAN MEDICAID PROGRAM.
The Healing Girl Home Help Program
We provide reliable and trustworthy care in Wayne, Macomb, and Oakland Counties.
Our program is designed to support individuals who want to live independently in their homes rather than live in an adult foster care home, nursing home, or home for the aged.
To receive home help care services an individual must have active Medicaid, and currently require physical assistant to perform at least one ADL (activity of daily living).
Services
Available Services include the following ADLs
(Activities of Daily Living)
WHO IS ELIGIBLE
Eligibility Criteria
Individuals eligible to receive assistance with at least one ADL may receive assistance with one or more IADLs, (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living), including:
- Administering or setting up medicine
- Laundry
- Light house work
- Meal preparation and clean up
- Shopping for food and medical necessities
MISCONCEPTION
Expanded Home Help Services
A common misconception about the home help program is that there is a maximum number of hours a client can be eligible for.
Expanded Home Help Services (EHHS) can be authorized for individuals who have severe functional limitations which requires such extensive care that the service cost must be approved by the adult services supervisor, local office designee, and or the MDHHS Home Help policy section.
When a client hands on care needs exceed 179.9 hours per month, they may be approved for Expanded Home Help Services (EHHS).
MISCONCEPTION
Services for Minor Children
A common misconception about the Home Help Program is that it is only available for adults, but the program can provide services for minor children.
When providing services for a minor child, personal care services must be shown to be a necessary supplement to usual parental care justified by the high service needs of the family,
High service needs are those which arise from a physical, medical, emotional or mental impairment of the minor child, and which requires significantly higher levels of intervention, than those required by a child of the same age without similar impairments.
When responsible relatives are unable due to a medical condition or unavailable due to employment or school, they can hire a caregiver to perform the activities of daily living medication, administration and meal preparation required during the parents absence.
Parents cannot be the paid caregivers for their minor children.