Light housekeeping ensures a clean, healthy, and safe environment. It includes dusting and vacuuming, cleaning up any items on the floor that could cause tripping hazard, tidying up items that are crowding to create a safe space for client to move around with or without mobility assistive devices, meal preparation and kitchen clean-up, washing and putting dishes away, disinfecting kitchen counters and cooking areas, disinfecting the bathroom, taking out the trash, changing sheets and making the bed, some laundry, grocery shopping and doing errands. All these tasks can not me accomplished daily on a short shift. How specific tasks are scheduled is part of the client-centered care plan that we create together with you during the in-home assessment.
