Ma gets hope for son’s care

A MANHATTAN mom who claimed city and state agencies ignored repeated pleas for competent home healthcare aides to help her severely disabled son may soon get the help he so desperately needs.

Delores McClain alleged Personal Touch — a home healthcare provider that works with the city — sent clueless aides to help her son, Lionel Jordan.

The aides were incapable of bathing Lionel, who has cerebral palsy and can’t speak or move on his own. They couldn’t even raise the 35-year-old with a specialized machine called a hoyer.

Despite being approved for round-the-clock, live-in care, Personal Touch aides sometimes didn’t show up — leaving the 56-year-old to largely care for Lionel herself, she said.

McClain, a NYCHA resident in Chelsea, said Lionel has now been assigned to a new agency.

The new assignment was made official Wednesday, McClain said.

She has met with a coordinator and nurse for the new agency, as well as one of Lionel’s new aides. They have created a plan for her son’s long-term care.

After struggling for better home care since 2012, McClain feels optimistic about Lionel’s future.

The long-awaited news comes several weeks after an exclusive Daily News report on McClain’s ordeal.

“What your article did was help to educate people of what people like myself go through that nobody wants to talk about,” McClain said.

“It opened the doors to have an open communication to get things that people like families like Lionel and myself need,” she added.

Personal Touch did not respond Wednesday to requests for comment.