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How does the residential algorithm determine your nighttime support needs score?
The residential algorithm scores the answers to each of the five following questions from the DDA sleep panel in the service level assessment to determine your nighttime support needs:
(1)
DDA Sleep Panel Question | If your answer to the question is: | Then your support needs score for this question is: |
Nighttime Assistance*needed? Frequency | 0 = None or less than monthly | Less than daily |
1 = At least once a month but not once a week | Less than daily | |
2 = At least once a week but not once a day | Less than daily | |
3 = At least once a day but not once an hour | Daily or more frequently | |
4 = Hourly or more frequently | Daily or more frequently | |
* Nighttime assistance needed means that the person wakes in the night and requires assistance with toileting, mobility, medical issues, behaviors, guidance through sleepwalking, or other support requiring intervention. | ||
(2)
DDA Sleep Panel Question | If your answer to this question is: | Then your support needs score for this question is: |
Nighttime assistance needed? Daily support time | 0 = None | Less than (<) 30 minutes |
1 = Less than 30 minutes | Less than (<) 30 minutes | |
2 = 30 minutes to less than 2 hours | 30 minutes or more | |
3 = 2 hours to less than 4 hours | 30 minutes or more | |
4 = 4 hours or more | 30 minutes or more |
(3)
DDA Sleep Panel Question | If your answer to this question is: | Then your support needs score for this question is: |
Can toilet self at night? | Yes | Yes |
No | No |
(4)
DDA Sleep Panel Question | If your answer to this question is: | Then your support needs score for this question is: |
Wakes to toilet most nights? | Yes | Yes |
No | No |
(5)
DDA Sleep Panel Question | If your answer to this question is: | Then your support needs score for this question is: | |
Nighttime behavioral/anxiety issues? | None | Defined as: No behavioral or anxiety issues at night. | No |
Minor | Defined as: You experience low to medium behavioral or anxiety issues when left alone at night, but can manage the behaviors/anxiety with minimal or no intervention. | No | |
Moderate | Defined as: You experience intense behavioral or anxiety issues when left alone at night, but you are managing to cope, even if only minimally, by yourself or with remote or occasional onsite help as needed. | No | |
Severe | Defined as: You experience intense behavioral or anxiety issues on most nights if left alone and require a support person within your home during all overnight hours in order to maintain yours and/or other's health and safety. | Yes | |
[Statutory Authority: RCW 71A.12.030 and 71A.16.050. WSR 21-19-093, § 388-828-9640, filed 9/17/21, effective 10/18/21. WSR 08-15-091, recodified as § 388-828-9640, filed 7/17/08, effective 7/17/08. Statutory Authority: RCW 71A.12.30 [71A.12.030] and Title 71A RCW. WSR 08-12-037, § 388-828-10260, filed 5/30/08, effective 7/1/08.]