Support Services

 

Attendant Services are provided by 2 programs; community outreach and supportive housing.

Both programs encourage consumers to achieve and maintain maximum independence and to assume total responsibility for governing his/her life. Support Service Plans are developed with each individual and schedules are setup according to their plan. Attendant staff provided the personal assistance in all areas of daily living, which an individual can not perform due to their disability. Activities of daily living are defined as Personal Skills and Management Skills.

The Personal Skills offered may include, but are not limited to:

Personal Hygiene
 Brushing teeth, bed baths, showers, tub baths, shaving, toiletting to include inserting suppositories, disimpaction, enemas, emptying catheters, condoms, urine bottles, bedpans, ileostomy bag maintenance, colostomy bag maintenance, diapering, grooming, hair care, skin care such as applying creams/lotions, changing dressings, turning consumers in order to prevent bedsores, intermittent catheterization, assisting consumer in taking oral medication.
Dressing/Undressing
 Includes full dressing or undressing, assistance with buttons, fastenings, zippers, shoes, boots, assisting in the application of technical devices such as braces, splints, etc.
Transferring
 Bed to chair, chair to toilet, wheelchair to chair, chair to bathtub, chair to fitness equipment, chair to mode of transportation, and reverse. 

To further assist consumers when necessary by manipulating wheelchair if their disability is such that this action is totally impaired.  Also assist with wheelchair maintenance and cleaning.
Meal Preparation
 Preparation and serving of meals, bibbing, spillages, food cutting, feeding, adhering to special diets.
Exercises
 Assist with physiotherapy and range of motion exercises.
Laundry
 Sorting laundry, loading machine and dryers, folding laundry, putting away laundered clothes, ironing.
Housekeeping
 Vacuuming, changing linens, cleaning bathroom area, sweeping, mopping floors, dusting.
Banking/Shopping
 Meeting consumer at destination and assisting with shopping for personal items, groceries, banking and other business. (Available through Attendant Care Outreach)

 

The Management Skills offered may include but are not limited to the following:

- managing personal finances

- using community resources

- maintaining a reasonable state of health

Managing your personal care by:

- developing affective cooperative relationships

- assessing and communicating what assistance is needed

- using community health programs to meet medical or professional needs

Creating a personal satisfying life style.

Hiring, scheduling and managing personal attendants

 

STAFF TRAINING

Employees of N.I.L.S. receive extensive orientation and training which enables them to perform all aspects of their job description.

Consumers are an intricate part of the training which ensures the self-directed component of the program is adhered to.

 

 


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