Personal support encompasses such care as grooming, dressing, bathing, transferring, bed care, medication compliance, simple wound dressings, blood sugar and blood pressure monitoring and respite care. This care is usually performed by a personal care support worker (PSW) or health care aide (HCA).
Agencies that offer personal support may accompany this care with additional homemaking services, such as home management, meal preparation, companionship (live-in, overnight or visiting), light housekeeping, accompaniment to appointments, shopping and errands.
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