Homemaker Services help with general household activities when a person is unable to manage the home, or when the person regularly responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to manage the home.

Assistance with short-term organizing and cleaning tasks

All licensed Homemaker services may provide:
* Help with routine household tasks and cleaning
* Monitoring safety and well-being

For people on the waivers or Alternative Care Program, Activities of Daily Living (ADL) or Home Management may be provided under the Homemaker service when providers have the appropriate level of licensure.

* Cleaning
- Light housekeeping tasks
- Laundry

* Home Management
- Arranging for transportation
- Meal preparation
- Shopping for food, clothing and household supplies
- Simple household repairs

* Assistance with Activities of Daily Living
- Help with bathing, eating, dressing, mobility, transferring from bed to chair and toileting

Learn more about this service when paid for under the waivers, the Alternative Care program, and the Essential Community Supports program in the Community-Based Services Manual.

If you have waiver funding, the support plan (based on an assessment of your needs) determines which services are funded through your waiver.

• Area Served by County
  • Cook County 
• Payment
  • Alternative Care Waiver (AC) 
  • Brain Injury Waiver (BI) 
  • Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver (CADI) 
  • Community Alternative Care (CAC) Waiver 
  • Developmental Disabilities Waiver (DD) 
  • Elderly Waiver (EW) 
  • Essential Community Supports (ECS) 
  • Sliding fee scale 
• Specialization
  • Older adults 
  • People with low income 
• Waiver Service Specialties
  • Basic Cleaning 

60 years old and over

A suggested donation is asked from a sliding fee scale based on monthly income.
Services are provided whether or not a contribution can be made.

10:00am - 3:00pm, Monday - Friday

Cook County

https://carepartnersofcookcounty.org

10/3/2024