KRS § 205.455 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 205 / Section 205.455
205.455 Definitions for KRS 205.460
Status: in_force

205.455 Definitions for KRS 205.460.

As used in KRS 205.460:

(1) "Chore services" means the performance of heavy housecleaning, minor

household repairs, yard tasks, and other activities needed to assist in the

maintenance of a functionally impaired elderly person in his own home.

(2) "Core services" means those services, including but not limited to client

assessment and case management services, designed to identify a functionally

impaired elderly person's needs, develop a plan of care, arrange for services,

monitor the provision of services, and reassess the person's needs on a

regular basis.

(3) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

(4) "District" means an area development district designated pursuant to KRS

147A.050.

(5) "Escort services" means the accompaniment of a person who requires such

assistance for reasons of safety or protection to or from his physician, dentist,

or other necessary services.

(6) "Essential services" means those services which are most needed to prevent

unnecessary institutionalization of functionally impaired elderly persons.

Essential services shall include chore services, home-delivered meals,

home-health aide services, homemaker services, respite services, escort

services, and home repair services.

(7) "Functionally impaired elderly person" means any person, sixty (60) years of

age or older, with physical or mental limitations which restrict individual ability

to perform the normal activities of daily living and which impede individual

capacity to live independently, thus rendering such person at risk of entering an

institution. Functional impairment shall be determined through a functional

assessment developed by the cabinet and delivered to each applicant for

essential services.

(8) "Home-delivered meals" means the provision of a nutritionally sound meal, that

meets at least one-third (1/3) of the current daily recommended dietary

allowance, to a functionally impaired elderly person who is homebound by

reason of illness, incapacity, or disability.

(9) "Home-health aide services" means the performance of simple procedures,

including but not limited to personal care, ambulation, exercises, household

services essential to health care at home, assistance with medications that are

ordinarily self-administered, reporting changes in the patient's condition and

needs, and completing appropriate records.

(10) "Homemaker services" means general household activities, including but not

limited to nonmedical personal care, shopping, meal preparation, and routine

household care, provided by a trained homemaker when the person regularly

responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to manage the

home and care for himself or others in the home.

(11) "Home repair services" means the provision of minor home adaptations,

additions, or modifications to enable the elderly to live independently or safely

or to facilitate mobility including, where appropriate, emergency summons

systems.

(12) "Respite services" means care provided by an approved caregiver or agency

for a designated time period because of absence or need for relief of a primary

caregiver.