Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part IV - Adult Services Manual › Subpart B - Eligibility for Services › Chapter 2050 - ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICES FUNDED THROUGH THE ADULT SERVICES BLOCK GRANT › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 2050.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Adult
-A person who is at least 18 years
						of age and under the age of 60, or a person under 18 years of age who is head
						of an independent household.
Adult day care service
-Provides a
						program of activities within a licensed, protective, nonresidential setting to
						four or more enrolled adults who are not capable of full time independent
						living.
Adult placement service
-Provides for the
						placement of dependent adults, who require personal care, in sheltered
						residential settings, other than their own homes or with relatives, if the
						primary mode of care is social rather than medical. Maintenance costs,
						including the cost of room and board, are not covered under this
						service.
Adult services
-The following services
						funded through the Adult Services Block Grant: adult day care, adult placement,
						chore, counseling, employment, home-delivered meals, homemaker, housing,
						information and referral, life skills education, protective, service
						planning/case management and transportation.
Adult Services Block Grant (ASBG)
-A
						grant of Federal and State money which provides funding to county governments
						in this Commonwealth for the provision of adult services to low-income
						adults.
Applicant
-A person who requests adult
						services for himself or for whom adult services are requested.
Child
-A person under the age of 18 who
						is not the head of an independent household.
Chore service
-Provides for the
						performance of unskilled or semi-skilled home maintenance tasks, normally done
						by family members, and needed to enable a person to remain in his own home, if
						the person is unable to perform the tasks himself and if there is no other
						responsible person available or capable of providing the service. The service
						includes buying necessary materials. The service is provided to maintain the
						person's health and safety in the home, not for purely aesthetic improvements
						to the home or yard. The term does not include major housing repairs such as
						house rewiring, extensive painting, or activities specifically covered by other
						services such as homemaker services. Specific activities provided vary
						according to individual needs and are described in the person's written service
						plan.
Client
-A person who has been determined
						eligible for and is receiving adult services.
Counseling service
-Nonmedical,
						supportive or therapeutic activities, based upon a service plan developed with
						the person, or the person and his family, to assist in problem solving and
						coping skills, intra- or inter-personal relationships, development and
						functioning.
Department
-The Department of Public
						Welfare of the Commonwealth.
Employment service
-Activities to enable
						persons with special needs, including the mentally disabled, who are not
						adequately served by existing programs, to gain or retain either paid
						employment or training leading to paid employment. The service does not include
						the cost of training, including on-the-job training, except in the case of
						mentally or physically disabled persons working in a sheltered employment
						situation. The payment of salaries to clients is not included under the
						service.
Family monthly gross income
-The total
						gross income earned or received by family members during the month.
Home delivered meals service
-Provides
						meals, which are prepared in a central location, to homebound individuals in
						their own homes. Each client is served a minimum of one but no more than two
						meals daily, up to 7 days a week.
Each meal is well-balanced, nutritious, and attractive
						and contains at least 1/3 of the current daily recommended allowances as
						established by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research
						Council.
Homemaker service
-Activities provided in
						the person's own home by a trained, supervised homemaker if there is no family
						member or other responsible person available and willing to provide the
						services or to provide occasional relief to the person regularly providing the
						service. The term includes instructional care if the person is functionally
						capable but lacks the knowledge, and home help and nonmedical personal care if
						the individual is functionally unable to perform life-essential tasks of daily
						living.
Housing service
-Activities to enable
						persons to obtain and retain adequate housing. The cost of room and board is
						not covered.
Information and referral service
-The
						direct provision of information about social and other human services, to all
						persons requesting it, before intake procedures are initiated. The term also
						includes referrals to other community resources and follow-up, as appropriate.
						The service may be provided only by agencies with a defined responsibility and
						staff identified for providing the service. The term does not include provision
						of information through the mass media or general public information methods
						except for the costs of advertising for the service itself.
Life skills education service
-Provides
						to persons the practical education and training in skills needed to perform
						safely the activities of daily living. The service is provided in formal
						classes, in informal classes, or, if needed and indicated by an individual's
						written service plan, in his own home or community. The term does not include
						job readiness training, instruction in a language, or remedial education
						directed toward the attainment of a high school diploma.
Medical services eligibility card
-The
						identification card issued by the Department to persons eligible for medical
						benefits under the following assistance programs available in this
						Commonwealth: Categorically Needy Program (cash assistance, non-money payment,
						SSI); Blind Pension Program; and Medically Needy Program.
Protective service
-A system of social
						service intervention activities to assist eligible persons in a crisis
						situation. The term includes social service activities necessary to remove the
						person from the dangerous situation as detailed in the written service plan.
						The term may also include the provision to the client, for no more than 30 days
						in a 6-month period, emergency shelter or housing in the form of room and
						board; transportation services; and if other resources, including Titles XVIII
						and XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.A. §§
												1395 -
						1395xx and
						1396-1396p) are not
						available, emergency health services and financial aid only if the client is
						any of the following:
(i) In imminent
					 danger of death or physical injury.
(ii) Abandoned or abused.
(iii) Acutely incapacitated mentally or
					 physically.
Provider
-A public agency, private
						organization, or individual who has been designated by the county commissioners
						or county executive to provide adult services or to determine and redetermine
						the eligibility of persons for adult services.
Service planning/case management
-Is a
						series of coordinative staff activities to determine with the client what
						services are needed and to coordinate their timely provision by the provider
						and other resources in the community.
Transportation service
-Activities which
						enable individuals to travel to and from community facilities to receive social
						and medical service, or otherwise promote independent living. The service is
						provided only if there is no other appropriate person or resource available to
						transport the individual.