Pennsylvania Code › Title 6 - AGING › Part I - Department of Aging › Chapter 20 - FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT PROGRAM › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 20.2 - 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:
Act
-The Family Caregiver Support Act
					 (62
					 P. S. §§
											3061-3068).
Area agency on aging
-The local agency
					 designated by the Department within each planning and service area to
					 administer the delivery of a comprehensive and coordinated plan of social and
					 other services and activities in the planning and service area.
Assistive devices
-Nondisposable personal
					 devices, as distinguished from modifications to a home, that are usable to
					 assist the carereceiver, or the caregiver on the carereceiver's behalf, to
					 carry out an activity of daily living and, thereby, reduce the caregiver's
					 burden.
Benefits counseling
-A service that
					 provides family caregivers with an individual, comprehensive review of their
					 caregiving situations to identify appropriate resources available and to assist
					 caregivers to access these resources.
Caregiver education
or
caregiver
					 training
-Services that provide instruction or training to family
					 caregivers, in groups or individually, in general and specific information or
					 skills required in the care of functionally impaired older persons.
Carereceiver
-A functionally dependent
					 older adult or other adult with chronic dementia such as Alzheimer's Disease
					 who is being cared for by a relative who lives in the same residence.
Chronic dementia
-An irreversible global
					 loss of cognitive function causing evident intellectual impairment which always
					 includes memory loss, without alteration of state of consciousness as diagnosed
					 by a physician and which is severe enough to interfere with work or social
					 activities, or both, and to require continuous care or supervision.
Consumable supplies
-Expendable items
					 needed on an ongoing basis to provide care to a carereceiver. Consumable
					 supplies do not include prescription drugs.
Continuous supervision
-Uninterrupted care
					 which does not preclude brief periods when the carereceiver may be left alone,
					 if appropriate and consistent with the care plan.
Department
-The Department of Aging of the
					 Commonwealth.
Functionally dependent
-Requiring enough
					 assistance with one or more activities of daily living to be deemed by the area
					 agency on aging, under this chapter, to require continuous care or supervision.
					 Limitations contributing to the functional dependency may include physical or
					 cognitive impairments.
Home modifications
-Reasonable
					 modifications, approved under this chapter, to the structure of a home for the
					 purpose of reducing caregiver burden. The term does not include repairs.
Household
-Persons who occupy the same
					 residence.
Household income
-The income of all members
					 of a household with the exception of a minor or dependent student.
Income
-Income, from whatever source
					 derived, as specified in §
										20.23 (relating to income).
OPTIONS
-A program operated by the
					 Department for persons who need long term care because they are functionally
					 disabled. The program provides a continuum of assessment, care management and
					 services which may make it possible for a functionally disabled person to be
					 maintained in the community as an alternative to institutional placement. Each
					 of these three functions under OPTIONS-assessment, care management and
					 services-is divided into Level I or Level II based on the intensity and
					 complexity of need.
Older adult
or
older
					 person
or
older relative
-A person who is 60 years of
					 age or older, and who is a relative of the caregiver.
Ongoing caregiving expenses
-The costs of
					 respite care and other supportive services or consumable supplies which are
					 directly related to the provision of care to the older relative.
Other adult
-A person 18 years of age or
					 older residing within this Commonwealth who is suffering from a chronic
					 dementia such as Alzheimer's Disease.
Other supportive services
-Services other
					 than respite care services that are directly related and necessary to the care
					 being provided to the carereceiver and which are noted in the client's care
					 plan. These services may include the following:
(i) Personal care skills training and other
				  caregiver education services not available directly from the Program.
(ii) Counseling under a certified counseling
				  or mental health agency.
(iii)
				  Legal and financial counseling necessary to manage the affairs of the
				  carereceiver.
(iv) Specialized
				  transportation services.
Planning and service area
-The geographic
					 unit within this Commonwealth, as designated by the Secretary, for the
					 allocation of funds for the delivery of social services to older persons
					 residing in that unit.
Poverty level
-The income level indicated
					 in the Federal Poverty Income Guidelines developed, annually updated and
					 published in the
Federal Register
by the United States
					 Department of Health and Human Services.
Primary caregiver
-The one identified
					 relative who has assumed the primary responsibility for the provision of care
					 needed to maintain the physical or mental health of a functionally dependent
					 older adult or other adult suffering from chronic dementia such as Alzheimer's
					 Disease, who lives in the same residence with the individual on a continuous
					 basis and does not receive financial compensation for the care provided.
Program
-The Family Caregiver Support
					 Program.
Relative
-A spouse or parent; child;
					 stepparent; stepchild; grandparent; grandchild; brother; sister; half-brother;
					 half-sister; aunt; great aunt; uncle; great uncle; niece; or nephew, by blood,
					 marriage or adoption.
Respite care service
-A regular,
					 intermittent or emergency service which provides the primary caregiver of a
					 functionally dependent older adult or other adult suffering from a chronic
					 dementia such as Alzheimer's Disease with relief from normal caregiving duties
					 and responsibilities.
Same residence
-A house, apartment, mobile
					 home, group of rooms, or single room, occupied as separate living
					 quarters.
Secretary
-The Secretary of the
					 Department.
This section cited in 6 Pa. Code §
												20.21 (relating to eligibility for
						Program benefits).