Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part VIII - Intellectual Disability and Autism Manual › Subpart E - Residential Agencies/Facilities/Services › Article I - Licensing/Approval › Chapter 6500 - FAMILY LIVING HOMES › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 6500.4 - 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:
Agency
-A person or legally constituted
						  organization administering one or more life sharing homes.
Autism
-A developmental disorder
						  defined by the edition of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
						  Mental Disorders
, or its successor, in effect at the time the
						  diagnosis is made. The term includes autistic disorder, Asperger's disorder and
						  autism spectrum disorder.
Department
-The Department of Human
						  Services of the Commonwealth.
Direct service worker
-A person whose
						  primary job function is to provide services to an individual who resides in the
						  home.
Health care practitioner
-A person who
						  is authorized to prescribe medications under a license, registration or
						  certification by the Department of State.
Individual
-
(i) A person with an intellectual disability
						or autism who resides, or receives residential respite care, in a life sharing
						home and who is not a relative of the owner or the family members.
(ii) The term does not include family
						members.
Individual plan
-A coordinated and
						  integrated description of activities and services for an individual.
Intellectual disability
-Subaverage
						  general intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental
						  period and is associated with impairment of one or more of the following:
(i) Maturation.
(ii) Learning.
(iii) Social adjustment.
Life sharing home
or
home
-
(i) The private
						home of an individual or a family in which residential care is provided to one
						or two individuals with an intellectual disability or autism, except as
						provided in §
												6500.3(f)
						(relating to applicability).
(ii)
						The term does not include a home if there are more than two individuals,
						including respite care individuals, living in the home at any one time who are
						not family members or relatives of the family members.
(iii) If relatives of the individual live in
						the home, the total number of people living in the home at any one time who are
						not family members or relatives of the family members may not exceed
						four.
Relative
-A parent, child, stepparent,
						  stepchild, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, half brother, half sister,
						  aunt, uncle, niece or nephew.
Respite care
-Temporary care not to
						  exceed 31 calendar days for an individual in a calendar year.
Restraint
-A physical, chemical or
						  mechanical intervention used to control acute, episodic behavior that restricts
						  the movement or function of the individual or a portion of the individual's
						  body, including an intervention approved as part of the individual plan or used
						  on an emergency basis.
Services
-Actions or assistance
						  provided to the individual to support the achievement of an outcome.
The provisions of this §
														6500.4 amended under sections
							 201(2), 403(b), 403.1(a) and (b), Articles IX and X of the Human Services Code
							 (62
							 P.S. §§
															201(2),
							 403(b), 403.1(a) and (b),
							 901-922 and 1001-1088); and section 201(2) of the Mental Health and
							 Intellectual Disability Act of 1966 (50 P.S. §
															4201(2)).
This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
														6500.12 (relating to
							 waivers).