Section 17-1426-3 - Eligibility requirements for clients In order to qualify for senior companion services, the individual shall meet the following conditions:
(1) The individual shall need the person-to-person assistance of a senior companion in order to maintain independent living within the individual's home; or(2) The individual shall be scheduled to be released from a health care facility within two to four weeks and shall need the assistance and support of a senior companion to help prepare the individual to return to and remain in the individual's own home; and(3) The individual shall be assessed as needing a senior companion by a volunteer station or senior companion program staff and shall have a written care plan;(4) The individual, or the individual's legal guardian, shall sign the care plan authorizing senior companion visits and specifying the activities to be performed before a companion may be assigned to the individual; and(5) Be sixty years of age or older.[Eff 6/29/92; am 8/05/93] (Auth: HRS § 346-56) (Imp: 45 C.F.R. §§1207.1 - 1, 1207.3 - 6 )