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Personal Care/Personal Attendant Services

Personal Care/Personal Attendant services assist people with cognitive, physical or disabilities of aging to carry out activities of daily living. Services include, but are not limited to: bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting, transferring, cooking, cleaning laundry, cognitive assistance and monitoring. A personal care/personal attendant worker may perform health related services (such as dispensing medication) which can be delegated by a health professional to an unlicensed person.

The Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services provides a range of education and home based support, including personal care attendants, through its Homebound Services. For more information, call 1-800-441-7607, or visit their website at: The Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services.

In the State of Alabama, attendant services are provided by the Alabama Medicaid Agency - Long Term Care Division that administers a number of Waivers. To learn more about these waivers go to the following website at: Alabama Medicaid Agency - Long Term Care Division.

The current waivers include:

  1. Elderly and Disabled (E/D) 1915(C) Waiver
    Operating Agencies - Alabama Department of Public Health
  2. SAIL 1915(c) Waiver
    Operating Agency - Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services
  3. Mental Retardation/Developmentally Disabled (MR/DD) 1915(c) Wavier
    Operating Agency - Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
  4. Alabama's Living At Home 1915(c) Waiver
    Operating Agency - Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
  5. Technology Assisted Waiver for Adults
    Operating Agency - Department of Rehabilitation Services
  6. HIV/AIDS Waiver
    Operating Agency - Alabama Department of Public Health
  7. Hope VI 115 Reasearch and Demonstration Waiver
    Operating Agent - Mobile Housing Board
  8. Specialty Care Assisted Living Facility Waiver
    Operating Agency - Department of Senior Services