Waiver Personal Care Services
**DHCS is experiencing longer than normal processing times for WPCS requests and phone calls due to a high volume of requests. Please allow additional time for processing and continue to work with the HCBA Waiver Agency assigned to your service area.**
Program Overview
The WPCS benefit was established by legislation in 1998, and is designed to assist Home and Community-Based Alternatives (HCBA) Waiver members with remaining safely in their residence and continuing to be part of the community, and includes the following services, as described in the HCBA Waiver:
Assistance to Independence in Activities of Daily Living (ADL): Assisting the member in reaching a self-care goal, the WPCS provider promotes the member’s ability in obtaining and reinforcing their highest level of independence in ADLs. The WPCS provider assists and provides feedback to the member in an effort to help them reach specific self-care goals in performing or directing their caregivers in an activity without assistance from others. Services provided by the WPCS provider are verbal cueing, monitoring for safety, reinforcement of the member’s attempt to complete self-directed activities, advising the primary caregiver of any problems that have occurred, providing information for updating the member’s Plan of Treatment (POT) and addressing any self-care activities with an anticipated goal completion date.
Adult Companionship: Adult companionship is for waiver members who are isolated and/or may be homebound due to their medical condition. Adult companions must be at least 18 years of age and able to provide assistance to members enrolled in the waiver. Waiver members utilizing Adult Companionship must be at least 18 years old. Adult Companion services include non-medical care, supervision, and socialization provided to a waiver member. To help maintain a waiver member’s psychological wellbeing, adult companions may assist waiver members in accessing self-interest activities or accessing activities in the local community for socialization and recreational purposes, and/or providing or supporting an environment conducive to interactions.
