2023 Delaware Code › Title 16 - Health and Safety › Chapter 94A. SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING › § 9403A. Definitions.

§ 9403A. Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter:
(1) “Adult” means an individual who is 18 years of age or older.
(2) “Affairs” means personal, health care, and financial matters arising in the course of activities of daily living and includes all of the following:
a. Those health-care and personal affairs in which an adult makes his or her own health-care decisions, including monitoring his or her own health; obtaining, scheduling, and coordinating health and support services; understanding health-care information and options; and making personal decisions, including those to provide for his or her own care and comfort.
b. Those financial affairs in which an adult manages his or her income and assets and its use for clothing, support, care, comfort, education, shelter, and payment of other liabilities of the individual.
(3) “Good faith” means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable standards of fair dealing.
(4) “Health-care institution” means “health-care institution” as defined in § 2501 of this title.
(5) “Health-care provider” means “health-care provider” as defined in § 2501 of this title.
(6) “Immediate family member” means a spouse, child, sibling, parent, grandparent, grandchild, stepparent, stepchild, or stepsibling.
(7) “Person” means an adult; health-care institution; health-care provider; corporation; partnership; limited liability company; association; joint venture; government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity.
(8) “Principal” means an adult who seeks to enter, or has entered, into a supported decision-making agreement with a supporter under this chapter.
(9) “Supported decision-making agreement” or “the agreement” means an agreement between a principal and a supporter entered into under this chapter.
(10) “Supporter” means a person who is named in a supported decision-making agreement and is not prohibited from acting under § 9406A(b) of this title or under regulations enacted under § 9410A of this title.
(11) “Support services” means a coordinated system of social and other services supplied by private, state, institutional, or community providers designed to help maintain the independence of an adult, including any of the following:
a. Homemaker-type services, including house repair, home cleaning, laundry, shopping, and meal-provision.
b. Companion-type services, including transportation, escort, and facilitation of written, oral, and electronic communication.
c. Visiting nurse and attendant care.
d. Health-care provider.
e. Physical and psychosocial assessments.
f. Financial assessments and advisement on banking, taxes, loans, investments, and management of real property.
g. Legal assessments and advisement.
h. Education and educational assessment and advisement.
i. Hands-on treatment or care, including assistance with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, eating, range of motion, toileting, transferring, and ambulation.
j. Care planning.
k. Other services needed to maintain the independence of an adult.
80 Del. Laws, c. 427, §  1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;