Personal care typically focuses on providing assistance with activities of daily living, such as:

• Assistance/supervision with showering, sponging
• Assistance with dressing and undressing
• Assistance with shaving, hair care and grooming
• Limited nail care
• Assistance with mobility and transferring, e.g.
  • In bed, to sit up or to turn
  • Out of bed, to stand, walk and sit
• Transfer to commode, wheelchair, chair, vehicle
• Assistance with eating and drinking, including cooking and preparation of food and special diets
• Assistance with toileting
• Assistance with prescribed exercise or therapy programs
• Fitting of aids or appliances, such as splints and calipers, following professional assessment and education
• Accompanying clients to appointments (by taxi), e.g. doctor, bank etc.
• Monitoring medication (i.e. prompting people to take prescribed medications.