Personal Care Assistance Services in Barrington, IL
Our Specialized Services
Our personal home care assistance is built around comfort, dignity, and consistency. Below is the full range of hands-on, non-medical home care assistance our caregivers provide for clients throughout Barrington, IL.
Skin Care
Preventative, general skin care for unbroken skin with no active chronic skin conditions — including non-medicated lotions and solutions that don't require a physician's prescription.
Ambulation
Assistance getting around the home safely, and encouragement to walk regularly to help prevent muscle atrophy from prolonged bed rest.
Dressing
Help getting dressed, including ordinary clothing and over-the-counter support stockings that don't require a physician's prescription.
Exercise
Encouragement with normal, tolerated movement and support sticking to a prescribed exercise program.
Feeding
Our caregivers are trained to assist with eating based on each client's physical or cognitive needs — mealtimes should be something clients look forward to, not just a task to get through.
Hair Care
Help with hair maintenance — shampooing with non-medicated shampoo, drying, combing, and styling.
Mouth Care
Assistance with basic oral hygiene, including denture care and oral suctioning where needed.
Nail Care
Nail care including soaking, pushing back cuticles without utensils, and filing. Nail trimming is not included.
Positioning
Assist a client with positioning when the client is able to identify to the personal care staff, either verbally, non-verbally or through others, when the position needs to be changed, only when skilled skin care, as previously described, is not required in conjunction with the positioning. Positioning may include simple alignment in a bed, wheelchair, or other furniture.
Shaving
Assistance with shaving using an electric or safety razor, as part of everyday grooming and personal hygiene support.
Bathing
Assist clients with bathing. Home services workers may assist individuals who are unable to be bathed in a tub or Shower assistance for seniors and tub bathing, provided by caregivers trained in the specific methods required for safe bed-and-tub bathing. As required by Illinois home services regulations, this includes a documented competency evaluation and the client (or their representative) directing and providing feedback throughout the process.shower only when the following requirements are met:
- The home services worker shall have been trained in the particular methods required to perform a bed bath;
- The client or client’s representative shall be able to participate in or direct the bathing process and provide ongoing feedback to the home services worker; and
- The agency shall have conducted a competency evaluation of the home services worker’s ability to employ the methods required to perform a bed bath.
Transfers
Assist with transfers only when the client has sufficient balance and strength to reliably stand and pivot and assist with the transfer to some extent. Adaptive and safety equipment may be used in transfers, provided that the client is fully trained in the use of the equipment and can direct the transfer step by step. Adaptive equipment may include, but is not limited to:
- wheelchairs, tub seats, and grab Gait belts may be used as a safety device for the home services worker as long as the worker has been properly trained in their use. A home services worker shall not assist with transfers when the client is unable to assist with the transfer. Home services workers may assist clients in the use of a mechanical or electrical transfer device only when the following conditions are met:
- The home services worker must have been trained in the use of the mechanical or electrical transfer device by the licensed agency;
- The client or client representative must be able to direct the transfer step by step; and
- The agency must have conducted a competency evaluation of the worker using the type of device that is available in the home.
Medication Reminding
Our medication reminders help clients stay on schedule once medications have been pre-sorted by the client, a family member, a nurse, or a pharmacist into a labeled medication minder. Our caregivers ask whether medication was taken, offer a verbal reminder, hand over the labeled container, and open it if the client is physically unable to always following the day-and-time labeling already set up by a healthcare professional.
Toileting
Assist a client to/from the bathroom; provide assistance with bed pans, urinals, and commodes; provide pericare; or change clothing and pads of any kind used for the care of incontinence.
- A home services worker may empty or change external urine collection devices, such as catheter bags or suprapubic catheter
- A home services worker may empty ostomy bags and provide assistance with other client directed ostomy care only when there is no need for skilled skin care or for observation or reporting to a nurse.