Overview
The program is designed to assist adults in maintaining independence or allowing them to remain in their own home by providing in-home services such as the following:

• Bathing
• Companionship
• Dressing
• Eating / feeding
• Light housekeeping
• Meal preparation
• Shopping
• Supervision
• Toileting

Although the program is called “companion services,” it is expected that the aides will be spending a majority of their time involved in a task such as housecleaning or bathing. A few hours may be given toward socialization but it is not the main focus of the program.

The Department of Family Services contracts the in-home services out to The Medical Team, a local home health agency. They provide the aides / companions that will assist you. The Companion Program is not a nursing program. If you need nursing care please talk with your doctor.