Pennsylvania Code › Title 6 - AGING › Part I - Department of Aging › Chapter 11 - OLDER ADULT DAILY LIVING CENTERS › Subchapter A - LICENSURE AND OPERATION REQUIREMENTS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 11.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
ADL
-
Activities of Daily
						Living
-The term includes bathing, dressing and undressing, grooming,
						eating, transferring in and out of bed or chair, toileting, bladder management,
						bowel management and additional personal care activities such as nail care.
Abuse
-The occurrence of one or more of
						the following acts:
(i) The infliction
					 of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or punishment with resulting
					 physical harm, pain or mental anguish.
(ii) The willful deprivation by a caretaker
					 of goods or services which are necessary to maintain physical or mental
					 health.
(iii) Sexual harassment,
					 rape or abuse as it is defined in the Protection From Abuse Act (35 P. S.
					 §§
												10181-10190).
Act
-The Older Adult Daily Living Centers
						Licensing Act (62 P. S. §§
												1511.1-1511.22).
Area agency on aging
-The single local
						agency designated within a planning and service area by the Department to
						develop and administer the delivery of a comprehensive and coordinated plan of
						social service activities for older persons.
Aversive conditioning
-The application,
						contingent upon the exhibition of maladaptive behavior, of startling, painful
						or noxious stimuli.
CRNP
-
Certified Registered Nurse
						Practitioner
-A registered nurse licensed in this Commonwealth who is
						certified by the State Board of Nursing and the State Board of Medicine in a
						particular clinical specialty area and who, while functioning in the expanded
						role as a professional nurse, performs acts of medical diagnosis and
						prescription of medical, therapeutic or corrective measures in collaboration
						with and under the direction of a physician licensed to practice medicine in
						this Commonwealth, as authorized by section 15 of the Medical Practice Act
						(63
						P. S. §
												422.15) and implementing
						regulations at 49 Pa. Code Chapter 21, Subchapter C (relating to certified
						registered nurse practitioners).
Caregiver
-A person who has assumed the
						primary responsibility for the care of a person with a functional impairment
						who is 60 years of age or older, or who is 18 years of age or older and has
						post-stroke dementia, Parkinsonism or a dementia-related disease such as
						Alzheimer's or other organic brain syndrome.
Caretaker
-The operator and staff persons
						of the older adult daily living center who have assumed responsibility for the
						provision of older adult daily living services in the older adult daily living
						center.
Center
or
older adult daily
						living center
-A premises operated for profit or not-for-profit in
						which older adult daily living services are simultaneously provided for four or
						more clients who are not relatives of the operator for part of a 24-hour day.
Client
-A resident of this Commonwealth
						with functional impairment who meets the following criteria:
(i) The person is categorically eligible
					 because the person is one of the following:
(A) Sixty years of age or older.
(B) Eighteen years of age or older and has
					 post-stroke dementia, or Parkinsonism or a dementia-related disease such as
					 Alzheimer's or other organic brain syndrome.