Personal Care Attendant Services (PCA)
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program description
Personal Care Attendant Services (PCA) is a Home and Community-Based (HCBS) NOW program that allows recipients to receive services in their home instead of institutional care. It provides planned
personal care attendant services to assist individuals with disabilities in the performance of necessary daily living activities, as well as respite care to relieve caretakers of their responsibilities for brief periods of time. Through a plan of care conducted by the individual, his/her family, and a group of professionals, PCA enables its recipient to live at home, or if possible, to live independently.
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services provided
- Assistance with personal hygiene, dressing, bathing, or grooming
- Light cleaning tasks in the areas of the home used by the recipient
- Shopping for health and hygiene products, clothing, and groceries
- Assistance with transfer and/or ambulation
- Assistance in the storage of food products and meal preparation
- If indicated, accompanying consumer to the clinic, doctor’s office, or other appointments related to the maintenance of their health
- Assistance with support services such as advocacy, and negotiating services
- Assistance with feeding objectives
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eligibility
- The consumer must meet the NOW requirements
- The consumer must have a chronic disability which is attributable to a physical and/or mental impairment. This disability must:
- Not be part of the natural aging process
- Be likely to continue indefinitely
- Result in substantial limitations in at least three of the following major life activities:
- Self care
- Receptive and expressive language
- Learning
- Mobility
- Self direction
- Capacity for independent living
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Contact Information
Contact your local Office
of Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD)
- DHH Region 1: New Orleans
(includes the following parishes: Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard)
(504) 568-8564
- DHH Region 2: Baton Rouge
(includes the following parishes: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana)
(225) 925-6286
- DHH Region 3: Thibodaux
(includes the following parishes: Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John Baptist, St. Mary, and Terrebonne)
(985) 449-4725
- DHH Region 4: Lafayette
(includes the following parishes: Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Vermilion)
(337) 262-1612
- DHH Region 5: Lake Charles
(includes the following parishes: Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis)
(337) 475-8045
- DHH Region 6: Alexandria
(includes the following parishes: Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, La Salle, Rapides, Vernon, and Winn)
(318) 484-2310
- DHH Region 9: Mandeville
(includes the following parishes: Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany. Tangipahoa, and Washington)
(985) 871-1352
Or contact the Central Office for OCDD
at 1.866.783.5553 or [email protected].
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