What is Personal Care?

What is Personal Care?

Personal care support refers to funded assistance with the personal and physical tasks of daily living that a person may find difficult or be unable to do independently due to their disability or support needs.

Personal care is not general housework or cooking. These supports fall under areas such as domestic assistance and meal preparation.

Personal care is specifically focused on tasks relating to a person’s body, personal hygiene, and daily routine. This may include:

• Showering and bathing

• Grooming and personal hygiene

• Dressing and undressing

• Toileting and continence support

• Mobility and moving safely around the home

• Other intimate or personal daily-care tasks

Personal Care Is About More Than the Task

Providing personal care means being invited into someone’s most private and vulnerable moments. It is essential that these moments are approached with dignity, respect, patience and compassion.

Simple things can make a significant difference:

It's the heart of personal care is a simple principle:

Treat every person with the same dignity, kindness and respect that you would want for yourself or someone you love.

Personal care isn’t just about completing a task.

It’s about supporting a person with dignity.

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