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Narrative

Home health aide services include:

• Meal planning, grocery shopping, and errands
• Cooking and assistance with feeding
• Dishes, laundry, and linen change
• Light housekeeping
• Assistance with bathing, toileting, and dressing
• Transportation to doctor’s office, supermarket, and pharmacy
• Medication reminders and assistance with self-administered medication
• Assistance with walking and mobility
• Bed bound care
• Status reporting to family
• Alzheimer’s and Dementia care

The purpose of companionship is to offer company and friendship. Companions may help with certain household chores, such as laying out towels before a shower, but their primary purpose is to spend time with the patient. Grown children may want to hire companions to keep an eye on their aging parents, for example. Some of the services offered by companionship care include:

• Adult and elderly home companion visits
• Assistance with writing letters and correspondence
• Help to connect with loved ones through e-mail and social media
• Games, crafts, and friendly conversation
• Assistance with organization
• Respite and family relief
• Sitter services

Service Types

• Case Management
• Chore Services
• Disability Awareness
• Homemaker Services
• In-program Transportation
• Nursing
• Nutrition
• Occupational Therapy
• Personal Care Attendants
• Physical Therapy
• Socialization Activities
• Speech Therapy

Insurances Accepted

• Aetna
• AllWays Health Partners
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Boston Medical Center HealthNet
• CeltiCare Health Plans
• CIGNA
• ConnectiCare
• Fallon Health
• Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
• Health New England
• Tufts Health Plan
• UniCare
• United Healthcare

Program Type

• Adult Foster Care
• Aging
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Health Care
• Home Health/Personal Care
• Information/Referral
• Mental Health
• Personal Care
• Respite

Populations Served

• AIDS/HIV
• All Disabilities
• Allergies
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Amputations
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Angelman Syndrome
• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Arthritis
• Arthrogryposis
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Ataxia
• Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyper Activity Disorder
• Autism Spectrum
• Autoimmune Diseases
• Balance Disorders
• Barth Syndrome
• Batten Disease
• Behavior Disorder
• Birth Defects
• Blind
• Blood disorders
• Bone Disorders
• Brain/Head Injury
• Burns
• Canavan Disease
• Cancer
• Celiac Disease
• Cerebral Palsy
• Chemical Sensitivities
• Chiari Malformation
• Chromosome Disorders
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Chronic Health Impairment
• Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
• Cleft Lip & Palate
• Cochlear Implants
• Colon Disease
• Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
• Costello Syndrome
• Craniofacial syndromes
• Cushing Syndrome
• Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Dandy-Walker Syndrome
• Deaf
• DeafBlind
• Depression
• Developmental Delay Birth to 3
• Developmental Disability
• Diabetes
• Digestive Disorders
• Dravet Syndrome
• Dual Diagnosis - ID/MI
• Dying/high Risk
• Dysautonomia
• Dysphagia
• Eating Disorders
• Ectodermal Dysplasias
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• Elderly Person with disabilities
• Epilepsy/seizure Disorder
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• FG Syndrome
• Fragile X Syndrome
• Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders
• Gastroparesis
• Gaucher Disease
• Genetic Disorders
• Glycogen Storage Disorders
• Grave's Disease
• Growth Disorders
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome
• Hard of Hearing
• Heart Disorder
• Huntington's Disease
• Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
• Hydrocephalus
• Incontinentia Pigmenti
• Intellectual Disabilities
• Joint Disorder
• Kawasaki Disease
• Kidney Disease
• Klinefelter Syndrome
• Language Impairment
• Laryngectomy
• Learning Disabilities
• Leukemia
• Leukodystrophy
• Liver Disease
• Lupus Erythematous
• Lyme Disease
• Mental Illness
• Microcephaly
• Mitochondrial Disease
• Mowat-Wilson Syndrome
• Multiple Disability
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Musculoskeletal
• Myotonic Dystrophy
• Narcolepsy
• Neurofibromatosis
• Neurogenic Spinal Deformity
• Nonverbal Communication
• Oral/Touch Defensive
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta
• Other See Narrative
• Pain
• Parkinson's Disease
• Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders
• Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia
• Phenylketonuria (PKU)
• Phobia
• Physical Disabilities
• Polio
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Rare disorders/low incidence
• Respiratory Disorders
• Rett Syndrome
• Rubella
• Sandhoff Disease
• Sanfilippo Syndrome
• Scoliosis
• Sensory Processing Disorder
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Skin Disorders
• Smell/taste Disorders
• Smith-Magenis Syndrome
• Sotos Syndrome
• Speech Impairment
• Spina Bifida
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Stroke
• Substance Abuse
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Suicide Loss Survivors
• Syringomyelia
• Tarlov Cyst Disease
• Tay-Sachs
• Thyroid Conditions
• Tourette Syndrome
• Tuberous Sclerosis
• Turner Syndrome
• Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
• Urea Cycle Disorders
• Visual Impairment
• von Hippel-Lindau Disease
• Williams Syndrome
• Xeroderma Pigmentosum

Ages Served

• Birth to 3
• 3 - 4
• 5 - 8
• 9 - 13
• 14 - 18
• 19 - 22
• 23 – 59
• 60 +

Languages Spoken

• American Sign Language
• Cambodian/Khmer
• Cape Verdean
• Chinese-Mandarin
• French
• Haitian
• Haitian-Creole
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Portuguese-Creole
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Vietnamese

Accessibility Features

• Able to serve clients in their wheelchair
• Accessible Parking
• Accessible Public Transportation
• Accessible Restrooms
• Braille/audio
• Easy Transfer Dental Chair
• Elevators
• Free Transport
• Latex Free Environment
• Medical Needs
• Mercury Free Environment

Additional Information

• Accredited By: MASS
• Fees: Free Service, MassHealth, Medicare, Private Insurance, Personal Funds, Sliding Scale, HCS Waiver
• Licensed By: ASAP