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Personal Care Assistant Services
Personal Care Assistant Services
Who?
In order to be eligible for PCA services, an individual must first be eligible to receive Medical Assistance, including TEFRA, or MinnesotaCare Expanded. An individual must also need services that are medically necessary and ordered by a doctor and be capable of making decisions about their own care or appoint someone who is capable. Currently, to qualify for PCA services an assessment of an individual needs to show dependence in two Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). Until July 1, 2011, to qualify for PCA services an individual only needed to have dependency in one ADL. ADLs include, but are not limited to, eating, grooming, toileting, dressing, bathing, and transportation.
Sometimes as parents, its really hard to admit or even to recognize how long it takes our child to do a task even with our assistance. But for the PCA assessment, its important to be brutally honest when explaining how long it takes our kids to complete even the simplest of tasks to make sure our kids get the most out of the PCA program. -Jenna, parent
How?
Your county public health nurse can arrange an assessment and tell you more about the available PCA options.
Where?
For more information, go to the MN Department of Human Services website.