VisionQwest offers a wide range of care giving services utilizing field staff with a broad spectrum of language and task skills.  Service tasks are graded (and consequently charged) according to the degree of skill nad difficulty involved.  The following table is an example of how domiciliary care tasks are graded and categorized in order to provide appropriately skilled staff at competitive prices.

>  Cleaning
>  Laundry
>  Meal Preparation
>  Simple Gardening tasks
>  Simple Handy-person tasks (within the skill and competence and training of Grade 1 caregivers)

NOTE:  A handy-person task does not include property or machinery maintenance or repair and field staff are not permitted to climb ladders, trestles, platforms or scaffolding.

Simple personal care and tasks relevant to assisting patients to maintain their independence in their own home, including:
>  Showering / bathing
>  Bed bath / sponge bath
>  Assisting patient mobility
>  Assisting or transferring patient to commode chair
>  Toilet assistance including mobility, loosening clothing, changing of incontinence and sanitary pads, assistance
    with bottles, assisting self-catheterization, changing babies nappies and toileting children
>  Assisting with menstrual care
>  Skin care - application of creams and lotions
>  Fitting of aids / appliances e.g. splints and calipers
>  Low level therapy requiring only simple instruction
>  Assistance in eating (where no eating difficulties exist)
>  All hair care
>  Limited care of nails
>  Shaving
>  Dressing and undressing
>  Oral hygiene - care of teeth and dentures
>  Oral medication - assist by prompting patients to take liquid medicines, pills, powders, nose and eye drops in
    accordance with health professional or caregiver's instructions

A high degree of total assistance of the patient in personal care, including:

>  Showering / bathing and/or total bed bath / sponge of patients where there is severely limited / uncontrollable
    body movements or serious comfort / health consideration
>  Toileting - assistance in placement, removal, emptying, care and cleaning of sheaths and leg bags
>  Assisting with indwelling catheterization
>  Changing or assisting with urinary diversion - colostomy and drainage bag
>  All bowel management, incontinence care including washing and pads
>  Menstrual care - changing tampons and sanitary pads
>  Skin care - changing dressings on pressure areas, cuts and grazes
>  Nasal care - cleaning noses
>  Mobility - using mechanical aids to lift and transfer patients
>  Specialized careful handling due to health / disability
>  Therapy - where a high degree or total assistance is involved and a specialized training or knowledge is
    required
>  Eating - assistance with eating where a rick of choking, vomiting or other eating difficulty is involved
>  Dressing / undressing where there are limited / uncontrollable body movements
>  Medication - suppositories