Community living services are individually-tailored supports that assist the participant with the acquisition, retention, or improvement of skills related to living in the community. These supports include adaptive skill development, assistance with activities of daily living including medication assistance, light housekeeping, community inclusion, transportation, adult educational supports, and social and leisure skill development that assist the participant to reside in the most integrated setting appropriate for his/her needs. Community living includes personal care, protective oversight, and supervision as indicated in the IPC. 

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Limitations:

Community living services are available to clients who are 18 years old or older. Support with personal care needs is a component of community living services, so service times for community living services and personal care services won’t be able to overlap. 

A relative (biological, adoptive, or step-parent of a participant) may provide all components of this service but will form a Limited Liability Company (LLC) or a corporation, be a certified provider or an employee of a certified provider, and shall not reside in the same residence as the participant. 

 

Services offer assistance and support for adults who need reminders, cues, intermittent/moderate supervision, or physical assistance to remain in their own home. 

Examples:

Caregiver may:

• Help problem-solve the person’s concerns related to daily living

• Provide verbal, visual and/or touch guidance to help the person complete a task 

• Develop and demonstrate cues

• Provide reminders and cueing systems to complete ADLs

• Cue and/or provide intermittent physical assistance with dressing, grooming, eating, toileting, mobility, transferring and positioning

• Cue and/or provide continual supervision and physical assistance with bathing, as needed

• Help with cleaning, meal planning/preparation and shopping for household and personal needs 

• Help with budgeting, money management, and communication

• Provide reminders about and assistance with exercises and other health maintenance or improvement activities

• Help the person access activities, services, and resources that facilitate meaningful community integration and participation

Caregiver will not:

• Specialized or adapted equipment for remote support

• Transportation mileage 

• A person cannot receive Community Living Services if they receive any of the following:

  • Adult foster care

  • Consumer-directed community supports

  • Customized living