About IHSS

The In-Home Supportive Services ( IHSS ) program is a federal, state, and locally funded program designed to provide assistance to those eligible aged, blind, and disabled individuals who, without this care, would be unable to remain safely in their own homes. IHSS provides services according to the client's ability to perform daily activities, and can include feeding, bathing, dressing, housekeeping, laundry, shopping, meal preparation and clean up, respiration, bowel & bladder care, moving in and out of bed, rubbing the skin, accompaniment to medical appointments, paramedical services, and protective supervision.

居家支援服務 ( IHSS ) ，提供了美國老年人或失能者生活基本需求必要的保障。提出申請後，社工人員會來家訪，仔細詢問評估個人身體機能狀況，據以核定每月所需協助的時間，由政府付給service provider 每小時9美元的工資，協助處理個人生活需求或家務事。你可以聘請外人，或由自己的家人提供此項服務。

在台灣，若家中有長期需要被照護者，不是請外勞或送安養中心，就是由家人無給扛起重擔；歐美國家多設有公立安養院，如果住在家裡由家人照顧，照顧者可自政府領取基本工資，彌補無法外出就業的部分損失，社會福利發展先進國家，對基本人權的重視，可見一斑。老有所終的問題處理，顯示一個社會的文明程度。