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An Asian family walking in the park with their father in a wheelchairOur Mission...

The Center for Personal Assistance Services provides research, training, dissemination and technical assistance on issues of personal assistance services (PAS) in the United States:

  • The relationship between formal and informal PAS and caregiving support, and the role of assistive technology (AT) in complementing PAS;
  • Policies and programs, barriers and new models for PAS in the home and community;
  • PAS Workforce development, recruitment, retention, and benefits; and
  • Workplace models of formal and informal PAS and AT at work.

What’s New

Real Wages Falling For Personal And Home Care Aides Posted on: 8-11-08
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The Center for Personal Assistance Services Receives Five-Year Grant For Research on PAS Posted on: 7-16-08
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Emerging Trends and People with Disabilities: NCD Seeks Public Input Posted on: 7-09-08
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What Are Personal Assistance Services?

Personal Assistance Services (PAS) refer to help provided to people with disabilities to assist them with tasks essential for daily living. These tasks include bathing, dressing, getting around, toileting, eating, shopping, remembering things, and other activities. PAS, along with assistive technology such as wheelchairs, text readers, and hearing aids, help people with disabilities to participate in activities at home, at work, and in the community.

PAS is also known as long term care (LTC), caregiving, attendant care, personal care services (PCS), assistive care and other terms that refer to one person helping another to do daily activities. While in some cases, this assistance is formal (paid), the majority of this assistance takes the form of unpaid family or friends who give informal assistance. This Center is looking into all of these forms of PAS.

Workplace Personal Assistance Services (Workplace PAS) include task-related assistance at work, such as readers, interpreters, help with lifting or reaching, re-assignment of non-essential duties to co-workers, and other help related to performing work tasks and may include personal care-related assistance such as helping someone with toileting, eating, or drinking while at work.

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