Code of Maine Rules › 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › 149 - OFFICE OF AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES › Chapter 5 - BUREAU OF ELDER AND ADULT SERVICES POLICY MANUAL › Section 149-5-1 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
For the purposes of this document the following definitions
				  shall apply unless otherwise specified:
Administration on Aging (AoA)
means the Federal
				  agency charged with responsibility for carrying out the Older Americans
				  Act.
Area Agency on Aging (AAA - read "triple A")
means a public or private nonprofit agency or organization designated by the
				  Bureau of Elder and Adult Services, in accordance with Section 305(a)(2)(A) of
				  the Older Americans Act, to receive grants or contracts for building a
				  comprehensive system of services for older people in a designated Planning and
				  Service Area (PSA).
Agreement
means a legally binding document
				  between two or more parties including such documents as are commonly referred
				  to as contract, grant, memorandum of understanding, joint or cooperative
				  agreement or purchase of service contract.
Bureau of Elder and Adult Services
means the
				  Bureau of Elder and Adult Services in the Maine Department of Human
				  Services.
Bureau
means the Bureau of Elder and Adult
				  Services.
Commissioner
means the Commissioner of the Maine
				  Department of Human Services.
Consumer
means a person who has requested or
				  received services from the Bureau of Elder and Adult Services, AAA, or service
				  provider, or a person who is eligible for such services. A consumer's
				  designated or legal representative, such as a guardian, conservator, or agent
				  under a power of attorney, may exercise all rights, consistent with their legal
				  authority, conferred by these policies on behalf of that consumer.
Days
means calendar days.
Department
means the Maine Department of Human
				  Services (DHS).
Department of Human Services (DHS)
means the
				  department of State government set up to protect and preserve the health and
				  welfare of Maine citizens. It accomplishes this through administering a
				  wide-ranging system of Federal and State programs in social and rehabilitation
				  services, income maintenance, and public health and medical services.
Designated Representative
means a legal
				  representative or, in the absence of a legal representative, a person named in
				  writing by the consumer to act on the consumer's behalf and to assist in
				  decision making.
Director means the Director of the Bureau of Elder and Adult
				  Services in the Maine Department of Human Services.
Elderly People
means people 60 or more years of
				  age.
Focal Point
means a facility established to
				  encourage the maximum collocation and coordination of services for older
				  people.
Greatest Economic Need
means the need resulting
				  from an income level at or below the poverty levels established by the Federal
				  Office of Management and Budget.
Greatest Social Need
means the need caused by
				  noneconomic factors that include physical and mental disabilities, language
				  barriers, and cultural, social, or geographical isolation including that caused
				  by racial or ethnic status that restricts an individual's ability to do normal
				  daily tasks or that threatens such individual's capacity to live
				  independently.
Individual Needs Assessment
means collecting
				  necessary information about an older person to determine that person's needs
				  for services.
Intrastate Funding Formula
means the formula
				  developed by the Bureau of Elder and Adult Services, and in accordance with the
				  Older Americans Act, for the allocation of Title III funds among AAA's.
Legal Representative
means a person who has
				  legal authority to make decisions on behalf of a consumer, including an agent
				  under a power of attorney, a durable power of attorney, a living will or a
				  guardian, conservator or trustee.
Low Income
means having an income that is equal
				  to or less than the levels established by the Office of Management and Budget
				  as poverty level.
Means test
means the use of an older person's
				  income or resources to deny or limit that person's receipt of services under
				  the Older Americans Act.
Older people
means people 60 or more years of
				  age
Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH)
means
				  the unit within the Maine Department of Human Services responsible for
				  conducting formal adjudicatory hearings.
Planning and Service Area (PSA)
means a
				  geographic area specified by the Bureau of Elder and Adult Services under
				  section 305(a)(1)(E) of the Older Americans Act.
Poverty
means having an income that is equal to
				  or less than those established by the Office of Management and Budget as
				  poverty level.
Rural
areas are all areas not defined as urban.
				  Urban areas comprise (1) urbanized areas (a central place and its adjacent
				  densely settled territories with a combined minimum population of 50,000) and
				  (2) incorporated places or census designated places with 20,000 or more
				  inhabitants.
Service provider
means a grantee or contractor
				  that is awarded funds administered by the Bureau of Elder and Adult Services to
				  provide a service. This term also refers to the Bureau of Elder and Adult
				  Services and AAA's when they provide direct services under a Waiver of the
				  Prohibition of Direct Services under Section 30.09 of this manual.
State Agency (SA)
means the sole State agency
				  specified by a State under section 305(a)(1) of the Older Americans Act to be
				  primarily responsible for the coordination of all State activities related to
				  the purposes of the Older Americans Act. In Maine the State Agency is the
				  Bureau of Elder and Adult Services.