46-191. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Adult day care" or "adult day health" means services which provide adults with
optimal personal care in a group setting during a portion of a twenty-four hour
day. This service provides planned care and supervision, recreation and socialization,
personal care, personal living skills training, congregate meals and health monitoring
and may include health related services such as preventive, therapeutic and restorative
health care.
2. "Attendant care" means a service which provides a trained attendant to provide
assistance with homemaking, general supervision and personal care.
3. "Case management services" means the assessment and development of an
individualized service plan through which the eligibility of individuals is determined,
appropriate services or benefits are identified, planned, reported, monitored or
terminated and follow-up is provided if and when appropriate.
4. "Home care services" means services provided to an individual who is
functionally impaired and unable to perform activities of daily living. These services
include case management, assessment of functional impairment and needed community
services, home care, housekeeping chore services, home health aid, personal care,
visiting nurse services, adult day care, adult day health, respite care, attendant care
and home delivered meals.
5. "Home delivered meals service" means a nutritious meal which contains at least
one-third of the recommended dietary allowance for an individual and is delivered to the
individual's place of residence.
6. "Home health aid" means services which provide intermittent health maintenance,
continued treatment or monitoring of a health condition and supportive care for
activities of daily living within the individual's place of residence.
7. "Nonmedical home and community based care system" means a comprehensive, case
managed system of care which is provided to a functionally disabled person in the
person's home or community and which supports the role of the family and caregivers as a
part of the care plan which may include personal care, housekeeper chore services, adult
day care, adult day health care, respite care and home delivered meals, as well as health
care services which are a necessary, but subordinate, part of the care plan.
8. "Older Arizonan" means a resident of this state who is at least sixty years of
age.
9. "Personal care" means assistance to meet essential personal physical needs.
10. "Physically disabled" means an individual who has a physical impairment that
substantially limits one or more major life activities and who has a diagnosis of such
impairment.
11. "Respite sitter services" means short-term care and supervision which may be
required to be available on a twenty-four hour basis.
12. "Visiting nurse services" means services which provide intermittent skilled
nursing services in the individual's place of residence. Skilled nursing services may
include health maintenance, continued treatment or supervision of a health condition.
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