Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 710 - ILLINOIS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSISTANCE CODE › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 710.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"ACT" means the Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Act [410 ILCS
				  405 ].
F4"ADA Advisory Committee" or "Advisory Committee" or
				  "Committee" means the Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee created under
				  Section 6 ofF2 F4theF2 F4F2 F4Act.F2 (Section 3(e) of the Act)
F4"Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders" or "AD" or
				  "ADRD" means a health condition resulting from significant destruction of brain
				  tissue with resultant loss of brain function, including, but not limited to,
				  progressive, degenerative and dementing illnesses including presenile and
				  senile dementias, including Alzheimer's Disease and other related disorders.F2
				  (Section 3(a) of the Act)
"F4Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Network" or "ADA Network"
				  means the various health, mental health and social services agencies that
				  provide referral, treatment and support services under standards and plans
				  adopted and implemented in conjunction with a regional ADA center.F2 (Section
				  3(d) of the Act)
"Caregivers" means those individuals that provide a continuum
				  of care to persons with ADRD; this definition includes family members,
				  relatives, health care professionals, legal guardians, and other
				  individuals.
"Case Management" means providing comprehensive needs
				  assessment and services coordination to assist persons with ADRD and their
				  families in gaining access to and receiving needed support services.
"Clearinghouse Services" means the procedure for the
				  correlation of data and matching services to persons with ADRD and
				  families.
"Clinical Diagnosis" or "Diagnosis" means the process of
				  identifying by means of an examination "Probable AD", "Possible AD", and/or
				  "Definite AD".
"Consultation" means information given by the
				  multi-disciplinary team to persons who may be, or who have been, diagnosed with
				  Alzheimer's disease and related disorders and to their family members and legal
				  guardians.
"Dementia" or "Primary Dementia" or "Dementing Illness" means
				  a loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with
				  social or occupational functioning.
F4"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
				  Health.F2 (Section 3(f) of the Act)
"Detection" means the process of determining through
				  identification and diagnostic evaluation the level of probable AD and
				  geographic distribution of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related
				  disorders.
"Diagnostic Evaluation" means evaluations of a person
				  suspected of having Alzheimer's disease through physical, neurological and
				  psychiatric evaluations. After other diseases have been ruled out, a
				  determination of AD can usually be made on the basis of medical history, mental
				  status and the course of the illness; the process of assessing cognitive
				  abilities and deficits among persons who may be or who have been diagnosed with
				  Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; and the process of assessing the
				  social needs and capabilities of persons with ADRD, caregivers and family
				  members.
"Identification" means the description of the specific form
				  of dementing illness; it does not imply that the condition will have a
				  particular course, duration or end-point.
"Multi-Disciplinary Team" or "Referral Team" means a team
				  approach that assesses the needs and capabilities of persons with ADRD and
				  family members; team members are drawn from the disciplines of medicine
				  (general medicine, neurology, psychiatry), nursing, social work, psychology and
				  occupational therapy.
"Primary Alzheimer's Provider"or"Primary ADRD Provider" or
				  "Primary Provider" means a licensed hospital, a medical center under the
				  supervision of a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its
				  branches, or a medical center that provides medical consultation, evaluation,
				  referral and treatment to persons who may be or who have been diagnosed as
				  persons with Alzheimer'sdiseaseor related disorders pursuant to policies,
				  standards, criteria and procedures adopted under an affiliation agreement with
				  a regional ADA center under the Act. (Section 3(c) of the Act)
"Primary Investigator" means the person with prime
				  responsibility for conducting a research project.
"Referral" means the process of linking persons who may be or
				  who have been diagnosed as persons with Alzheimer's disease or related
				  disorders with services in response to those needs.
"Regional Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Center" or "Regional
				  ADA Center" meansanypost-secondary higher educational institution having a
				  medical school in affiliation with a medical centerhaving a National Institutes
				  of Health and National Institutes on Aging sponsored Alzheimer's Disease Core
				  Center. Any Regional ADA Center which was designated as having a National
				  Alzheimer's Disease Core Center but no longer carries such designation shall
				  continue to serve as a Regional ADA Center. (Section 3(b) of the Act)
"Research" means a scientific investigation into possible
				  causes, locations, progression, treatment, care and cure of Alzheimer's disease
				  and related disorders.
"Research Act" means the Alzheimer's Disease Research Act
				  [410 ILCS 410 ].
"Service Area" means a specific geographic area of Illinois
				  served by an ADA network containing a Regional ADA Center.
"Social Services Agencies" or "Social Agencies" or "Resource
				  Agencies" or "Other Public and Private Resources" means entities that provide
				  direct support and help to persons who may be or who have been diagnosed with
				  Alzheimer's disease and related disorders and to their caregivers.
"Support Services" means both formal and informal resources
				  that are available to the support system of caregivers, which include family
				  members, in order to meet the needs of persons with ADRD, including nursing,
				  adult day care, long term care, rehabilitation, mental health and social
				  services.
"Training and Continuing Education" means all in-service
				  training, staff development, refresher courses, workshops, conferences,
				  institutes, telelectures and other educational methods used to assist health
				  care professionals and caregivers in care and treatment of persons with
				  ADRD.
"Treatment" or "Patient Treatment" or "Care and Treatment"
				  means everything that can be done to treat and support persons who may be or
				  who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders in order
				  to improve the quality of life, including support for their family
				  members.