- PCA Activities
- PCA Options
- PCA Traditional
- PCA Choice
- Shared Service Option
- The Flexible Use options
PCA Activities:
- Activities of daily living: including eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, transferring, mobility, and positioning.
- Instrumental activities of daily living: including eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, transferring, mobility, and positioning.
- Health-Related Functions: such as range of motion exercises, seizure intervention, or ventilator suctioning.
- Redirection and Intervention for behavior: including observation and monitoring.
- PCA Options:
- The Traditional PCA Option: click here Under this option, people receiving PCA Services obtain PCA staff through a PCA Agency which hires, trains, pays, and schedules the hours of PCA workers. This option gives In-Home Care the freedom to be flexible with what our cliewantants to do, like schedule their own PCAs and have us take care of all the steps involved with hiring and firing PCAs.
- The PCA Choice Option: In the PCA Choice program, people are able to independently hire and train the PCAs who provide their care. Under the PCA Choice option gives clients more responsibility. The client is considered the employer: click here
All PCAs who work for a client under PCA Choice are eligible to join Minnesota’s PCA Union (SEIU). This PCAs pay union dues and also vote in union matters.
- Shared Service Option: click here The Shared Care Option allows one PCA worker to help two or three individuals living in the same setting.
- The Flexible Use Option: click here Under the Flexible Use Option, individuals can use their approved PCA hours flexibly within a service authorization period to accommodate their varying needs and schedules.