North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 06 - AGING - PROGRAMS OPERATIONS › Subchapter X - STATE IN-HOME SERVICES FUND: IN-HOME AIDE SERVICES › Section .0200 - PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS › Section 06X .0202 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
As used in this Subchapter and in
					 10A NCAC
					 71Q.0911, In-Home Aide Services, the
					 following terms have the meanings specified:
(1) "Activities of Daily Living (ADL)"
				  include eating; dressing; bathing; toileting; bowel and bladder control;
				  transfers; ambulation; and communication such as speaking, writing, signing,
				  gestures, and using communication devices.
(2) "Adult" means 18 to 59 years of
				  age.
(3) "Available Person" is
				  someone who lives with or near the client, who has the time and is willing to
				  perform the needed services.
(4)
				  "Child" means under 18 years of age.
(5) "Home Management" includes tasks that
				  range from basic housekeeping, shopping, and essential transportation to
				  intensive work with individuals and children and their families on budgeting
				  and family management.
(6)
				  "Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)" includes meal preparation,
				  medication intake, cleaning, money management, phone use, laundering, reading,
				  writing, shopping and going to necessary activities.
(7) "Medically Stable" means physical or
				  mental adaptation to previously recognized health problems with effective
				  maintenance by diet, medication, routine physical exercise, or a combination of
				  these remedies.
(8) "Medically
				  Unstable" means a recent acute illness or complications of a chronic condition
				  that are not physically or mentally controlled by diet, medication, or physical
				  exercise and which require frequent monitoring and testing by skilled
				  professionals.
(9) "Own Home" means
				  that the service recipient is living in a residence he maintains for himself or
				  is maintained for him. "Own home" does not include any group care setting. For
				  children and their families own home also means a family foster home licensed
				  by the North Carolina Department of Human Resources to provide care for
				  children and supervised by a county department of social services or licensed
				  child-placing agency.
(10)
				  "Personal Care" includes tasks that range from assistance with basic personal
				  hygiene and grooming, feeding, and ambulation to medical monitoring and other
				  health care related tasks.
(11)
				  "Primary Caregiver" is the person who voluntarily provides the most care or
				  assumes the most responsibility for another person.
(12) "Respite Care" is a component of In-Home
				  Aide Services which provides needed relief to primary caregivers or parents of
				  persons who cannot be left alone because of mental or physical problems or the
				  need for care and supervision.
(13)
				  "Responsible Person" is someone who is dependable and capable of performing the
				  needed services for the client.
(14) "Review" means a regular contact by an
				  appropriate professional with the individual or family or both to note
				  progress, maintenance or deterioration, changes in circumstances, and adequacy
				  of the In-Home Aide Service Plan in meeting the person's and family's needs,
				  and to make any needed adjustments.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 143B-153;
Eff. December 1,
					 1991;
Pursuant to
					 G.S.
					 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
					 substantive public interest Eff. September 6,
					 2016.