Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:9 - ODJFS Practices › Chapter 5101:9-14 - Adult Social Services Programs › Section 5101:9-14-02 - Adult protective services automated reporting system

Current through all regulations passed and filed
			 through July 1, 2024
(A)
			 The following definitions apply to this rule.
(1) "Abuse" means the infliction upon an
			 adult by the adult or others of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation
			 or cruel punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental
			 anguish.
(2) "Adult" means any
			 person sixty years of age or older within this state who is handicapped by the
			 infirmities of aging or who has a physical or mental impairment which prevents
			 the person from providing for the person's own care or protection, and who
			 resides in an independent living arrangement. An "independent living
			 arrangement" is a domicile of a person's own choosing, including, but not
			 limited to, a private home, apartment, trailer, or rooming house. An
			 "independent living arrangement" includes 
									a residential facility licensed under section
			 5119.22
									 of the Revised
			 Code that provides accomodations, supervison, and
			 personal care services for three to sixteen unrelated adults, but does not
			 include other institutions or facilities licensed by the state for or
			 facilities in which a person resides as a result of voluntary, civil, or
			 criminal commitment.
(3) "Adult
			 Protective Services" (APS) means an array of services provided to adults who
			 are at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation. Services include but are not
			 limited to: intake/referral, investigating reports of abuse, neglect, or
			 exploitation, and protective services as defined in paragraph
			 (A)(10)
			 of this rule.
(4) "Designated
			 Agency" means an agency designated through a contract/written agreement with
			 the county department of job and family services (CDJFS) to perform the duties
			 of investigating reports of suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation;
			 evaluating the need for, and to the extent of available funds, providing or
			 arranging for the provision of protective services.
(5) "Emergency" means that the adult is
			 living in conditions which present a substantial risk of immediate and
			 irreparable physical harm or death to the adult or any other person.
(6) "Emotional Abuse" means to threaten,
			 humiliate, intimidate, or psychologically harm an adult. This includes the
			 violation of an adult's right to make decisions and loss of privacy.
(7) "Exploitation" means the unlawful or
			 improper act of a caretaker using an adult or his/her resources for monetary or
			 personal benefit, profit or gain.
(8) "Neglect" means failure of an adult to
			 provide for his or her own goods or services necessary to avoid physical harm,
			 mental anguish, or mental illness or the failure of a caretaker to provide such
			 goods or services.
(9) "Physical
			 Abuse" means intentional use of physical force that results in bodily injury,
			 pain or impairment.
(10)
			 "Protective Services" means services provided by the CDJFS or its designated
			 agency to an adult who has been determined by evaluation to require such
			 services for the prevention, correction or discontinuance of an act of, as well
			 as, conditions resulting from abuse, neglect or exploitation. Protective
			 services may include, but are not limited to:
(a) Case work services.
(b) Medical care.
(c) Mental health services.
(d) Legal services.
(e) Fiscal management.
(f) Home health care.
(g) Homemaker services.
(h) Housing-related services.
(i) Guardianship services.
(j) Placement services.
(k) Commodities.
(i) Food.
(ii) Clothing.
(iii) Shelter.
(11) "Report" means a verbal or
			 written statement received by the CDJFS from any person who has reason to
			 believe that an adult has suffered or is suffering abuse, neglect or
			 exploitation.
(12) "Sexual Abuse"
			 means nonconsensual sexual contact of any kind with an adult regardless of age
			 of the perpetrator.