New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 164A - ADULT DAY SERVICES PROGRAM FOR PERSONS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE OR RELATED DISORDERS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 10:164A-1.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Administrative costs" means expenses an agency incurs in
				  support of the day-to-day functioning of the agency's participating adult day
				  services sites such as salaries and benefits for administrative positions;
				  office rent and utilities; and fees for legal, accounting, bookkeeping, and
				  auditing services, and excludes expenses the agency incurs for the provision of
				  direct services to clients and advertising.
"Adult day services" means a community-based group program
				  designed to meet the needs of functionally or cognitively impaired adults
				  through an individual plan of care structured to provide a variety of health,
				  social and related supportive services in a protective setting during any part
				  of a day, but less than 24 hours.
"Advertising costs" means the costs an agency incurs for
				  advertising media such as magazines, newspapers, radio, television, direct
				  mail, exhibits, electronic or computer transmittals, which are dedicated to
				  either:
1. The recruitment of clients;
				or
2. The recruitment of personnel
				for the agency's participating adult day services sites, as required by the
				agency in order to comply with the rules set forth in this chapter.
"Agency" means an adult day services program, either public
				  or private, nonprofit or proprietary, which contracts with the Department of
				  Human Services for the provision of services under this program.
"Applicant" means a person for whom an application for
				  services under this program is made.
"Authorized agent" means a person who is initiating an
				  application for services under this program on behalf of a potential client as
				  described in
				  N.J.A.C.
				  10:164A-5.2.
"Caregiver" means a spouse, parent, child, relative, or other
				  person who is 18 years of age or older and who has the primary responsibility
				  of providing daily care for the client and who does not receive financial
				  remuneration for the care.
"Care plan" means an interdisciplinary written plan of
				  services designed to provide the client with appropriate services and treatment
				  in accordance with his or her assessed needs.
"Client" means an individual receiving services under this
				  program.
"Co-payment" means financial participation in service costs
				  by the client according to a sliding fee scale approved by the Department (see
				  N.J.A.C.
				  10:164A-3.2(a)).
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Human
				  Services.
"Liquid resources" means assets that can be converted to cash
				  within 20 working days, including savings accounts, stocks, bonds, certificate
				  of deposits (CD) and life insurance policies which have a cash surrender value
				  and annuities which can be liquidated without incurring heavy penalties and tax
				  payments.
"Total program operating budget" means:
1. An itemized listing of an agency's
				participating adult day services sites' funding sources and monetary amounts
				that the agency received during its most recent complete fiscal year;
				and
2. An itemized listing of an
				agency's participating adult day services sites' costs and expenses that the
				agency incurred during its most recent complete fiscal year that were ordinary
				and necessary for the provision of direct services to clients, excluding
				administrative and advertising costs.