Glossary of Terms

Community-based group programs designed to meet the needs of adults living with a disability through individualized care plans. Adults travel from their homes to a facility offering a variety of services, including health, social, recreational, and therapeutic activities.

Supervised Facility setting. Service cost of Assisted Living is covered through waiver. Consumer is responsible for room and board. Reimbursement rate for AL is based on the Level of Service (LOS) assessment. Must be over 18 and cannot have skilled needs to qualify

Hands on assistance for individuals who have physical limitations and need additional support in carrying out daily living functions, such as bathing, dressing, and meal planning so they may continue living in their own home.

Comprehensive service comprised of a variety of specific tasks and activities designed to coordinate and integrate all other services required in an individual's care plan. Case Management is required in conjunction with the provision of any home and community-based service.

Available to eligible participants through congregate lunch sites and home-delivery routes in Vanderburgh, Posey, Warrick, Gibson, Perry, and Spencer counties. For more information, please visit Meals on Wheels Southwestern Indiana.

Minor physical adaptations to the home to ensure the health, welfare and safety of the individual and enable greater independence in the home.

Repairs that directly correct and/or prevent health and safety hazards for seniors and those living with disabilities so they may continue to live safely at home.

Offers direct assistance of household tasks and related activities for individuals who cannot meet these needs for themselves.

Performed by a qualified Home Health Aide, individuals receive hands on personal care to assist with exercises, walking, administering medications, and other simple procedures as an extension of therapy or nursing services.

Also known as Emergency Response Buttons, they help individuals connect to a response center in the case of an emergency. The response center is staffed 24 hours daily/ 7 days per week by trained professionals.

Designed to prevent, suppress, or eradicate anything that injures humans, spreads disease and/or annoys humans and is causing harm.

Provides appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures, prepares clinical and progress notes, coordinates services, and other related needs.

Temporary support services or living arrangements for care recipients to provide a brief period of rest or relief for family caregivers.

Gives an individual the opportunity to hire attendant(s) of their choice so they may have more control over their personal care needs. This option works well for individuals needing some help but want to remain independent and manage their own care.

Medically prescribed items which are necessary to assure the health, welfare, and safety of an individual and support greater independence in the home.

A service through which a participant receives care in their own home or the home of a principal caregiver. The principal caregiver cannot be the participant's spouse, the parent of a participant who is a minor, or the legal guardian of the participant.

Provided on a limited basis to complement the care provided by caregivers and include home modifications, assistive technologies, emergency response systems, and incontinence supplies.

SWIRCA sponsors the Transportation Remuneration Incentive Program (TRIP) to assist economically and socially deprived residents with supplemental transportation services which they might not otherwise be able to afford. To take advantage of this program, you must be at least 60 years of age and a resident of Vanderburgh County.

Structural changes/additions to a motor vehicle that permit an individual with a disability to be safely transported.