Personal Care Services

Personal Care Services in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Essential Living Support provides Personal Care Services in Cheyenne for eligible Wyoming DD Waiver participants. Support is based on each participant’s authorized Individualized Plan of Care (IPC), preferences, routines, and level of assistance, with dignity and independence at the center.

What Personal Care Services Are

Personal Care Services provide prompting or hands-on assistance with authorized activities of daily living. The goal is to help the participant complete personal routines safely and respectfully while encouraging the greatest appropriate level of choice and independence.

Support is participant-specific. ELS follows the assistance level, setting, schedule, and other requirements identified in the IPC rather than applying a standard package to everyone.

What Personal Care May Include

Personal routines

Authorized support with bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, and other personal-care activities.

Mobility and transfers

Prompting or physical assistance with movement, positioning, or transfers when included in the participant’s plan.

Daily living support

Assistance with meal-related or other instrumental daily-living routines when they fall within the authorized Personal Care scope.

Plan-directed routines

Medication assistance or other health-related routines only when permitted by the authorized service, staff role, training, and documentation requirements.

The participant’s approved IPC controls what ELS may provide. These examples do not guarantee that a particular activity is authorized for every participant.

Who May Benefit

Personal Care may fit an eligible Wyoming DD Waiver participant who needs authorized assistance with personal activities of daily living. The amount and type of support can range from reminders or step-by-step prompting to hands-on help, depending on assessed need and authorization.

The case manager and plan-of-care team determine eligibility and authorization. ELS reviews referrals for service fit, schedule, documentation needs, and current provider capacity.

How Personal Care Fits the Wyoming DD Waiver

Personal Care Services must be authorized through the participant’s Wyoming DD Waiver planning process and reflected in the IPC. The plan guides the purpose, approved activities, service setting, schedule, assistance level, and documentation expectations.

ELS does not present Personal Care as independent medical care, skilled nursing, therapy, or an open-ended home-care service. When needs change, ELS communicates with the appropriate support team members and follows the approved planning process.

Coordination With Case Managers and Guardians

ELS works with the participant, guardian, case manager, family, and other authorized team members to understand established routines, communication preferences, safety needs, personal choices, and the level of assistance identified in the IPC.

Coordination may include confirming authorization before services begin, establishing consistent routines, documenting support delivered, sharing relevant observations with authorized team members, and addressing questions when the participant’s needs or schedule changes.

Why Essential Living Support

ELS is a Cheyenne-based Wyoming DD Waiver provider serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Personal Care is delivered with attention to privacy, dignity, participant direction, consistent follow-through, and clear communication with the support team.

Staff provide the authorized amount of assistance while supporting the participant to do as much as is appropriate for themselves.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Personal Care Services?

They are authorized supports that help eligible participants complete activities of daily living, such as bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, mobility, transfers, and other approved personal routines.

Does every participant receive the same Personal Care activities?

No. Services are based on assessed need and the participant’s approved IPC. The plan determines which activities and assistance level are authorized.

Can Personal Care include medication assistance?

Only when the routine is within the authorized service scope and the staff member has the required training and documentation. Personal Care is not independent nursing or medical care.

Where are Personal Care Services provided?

The authorized IPC identifies the appropriate service setting and requirements. ELS confirms the setting and schedule with the case manager and support team before services begin.

How does ELS protect dignity and independence?

ELS follows participant preferences, communication needs, privacy, established routines, and authorized assistance levels while encouraging the participant’s involvement and choice.

How can a case manager or guardian start a referral?

Contact ELS to discuss current authorization, daily-living needs, schedule, documentation expectations, and provider capacity. Contacting ELS does not guarantee eligibility, enrollment, or availability.

Related Services

Homemaker Services focus on authorized household tasks rather than personal activities of daily living. Community Support Services focus on authorized skill development and participation in community settings. The participant’s IPC determines which service fits each need.

Discuss Personal Care Services

Case managers, guardians, families, and authorized referral partners can contact ELS to discuss Wyoming DD Waiver Personal Care Services in Cheyenne.

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