Virginia Administrative Code › Title 22 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Agency 30 - DEPARTMENT FOR AGING AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES › Chapter 60 - GRANTS TO AREA AGENCIES ON AGING › Part I - Introduction › Section 22VAC30-60-20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter
					 shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Access services" means services associated with access to
					 other services, such as care coordination, information and assistance and
					 transportation services.
"Area" means the planning and service area served by an
					 Area Agency on Aging.
"Area Agency on Aging" means the public or private
					 nonprofit agency created pursuant to the federal Older Americans Act of 1965,
					 as amended (
					 42 USC §
											3001 et seq.) and incorporated by reference
					 in this chapter, which has submitted an approved Area Plan and is designated by
					 contract with the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to
					 develop and administer its area plan as approved for a comprehensive and
					 coordinated system of services for older persons.
"Area Plan for Aging Services" means the document submitted
					 by an area agency to and approved by the Virginia Department for Aging and
					 Rehabilitative Services, as the scope of services in the executed contract, in
					 order to receive funding under the Older Americans Act, as amended.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Virginia
					 Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services.
"Complaint" means any written or oral allegation regarding
					 (i) an action, inaction, or decision of a provider that adversely affects the
					 rights, health, welfare, or safety of the person complaining or the recipient
					 of services, or (ii) a violation of the regulations, policies or procedures
					 that govern long-term care services, brought by or on behalf of a resident of a
					 long-term care facility, regardless of age, or a recipient of long-term care
					 services provided in the community who is at least 60 years of age.
"Complaint counseling" means information, guidance, and
					 support to enable the complainant or the recipient of services to attempt to
					 resolve the complaint or concern himself if he so chooses or is able by
					 utilizing the complaint handling procedures of the long-term care facility or
					 long-term care service provider.
"Contract" means the document of agreement wherein the
					 Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services designates the
					 contractor as the duly funded Area Agency on Aging, consistent with the
					 federally approved State Plan for Aging Services, in consideration for which
					 the area agency assures its specific performance of functions and services
					 pursuant to the approved area plan.
"Frail" means having a physical or mental disability,
					 including having Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder with neurological or
					 organic brain dysfunction, which restricts the ability of an individual to
					 perform normal daily tasks or which threatens the capacity of an individual to
					 live independently.
"Government-sponsored area agencies" or "area agencies
					 sponsored by governmental entities" means area agencies created as units of
					 general purpose local governments, area agencies created through the joint
					 exercise of powers, and area agencies created as units of community services
					 boards. Included under this category of Area Agencies on Aging are: District
					 Three Governmental Cooperative trading as District Three Senior Services, New
					 River Valley Agency on Aging, Alexandria Agency on Aging, Arlington Agency on
					 Aging, Fairfax Area Agency on Aging, Loudoun County Area Agency on Aging,
					 Prince William Area Agency on Aging, Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services
					 Board, Jefferson Area Board for Aging, Lake Country Area Agency on Aging, and
					 Crater District Area Agency on Aging. In instances where governmental-sponsored
					 agencies need to be differentiated by their status as free-standing
					 joint-exercise-of-powers agencies or units of a governmental entity, it has
					 been so denoted.
"Grant" means an award of financial assistance in the form
					 of money, or property instead of money, by the Virginia Department for Aging
					 and Rehabilitative Services to an Area Agency on Aging. The term includes such
					 financial assistance when provided by contract.
"Grantee" or "contractor" means the government, nonprofit
					 corporation, or other legal entity to which a grant is awarded and which is
					 accountable to the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services
					 for the use of the funds provided.
"Greatest economic need" means the need resulting from an
					 income level at or below the poverty level established by the federal Office of
					 Management and Budget.
"Greatest social need" means the need caused by noneconomic
					 factors, which include physical and mental disabilities, language barriers, and
					 cultural, social, or geographical isolation, including that caused by racial or
					 ethnic status, that restrict an individual's ability to perform normal daily
					 tasks or threaten such individual's capacity to live independently.
"In-home services" means
(i) homemaker services,
(ii) personal care services,
(iii) chore services,
(iv) home health services,
(v) checking services,
(vi) residential repair and renovation services, and
(vii) in-home respite care for families and adult day care
					 as a respite service for families.
"Long-term care facility" means any facility outside of the
					 service recipient's home in which two or more unrelated persons receive
					 long-term care services, including nursing homes licensed by the Department of
					 Health, assisted living facilities licensed by the Department of Social
					 Services, and geriatric treatment centers licensed by the Department of
					 Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.
"Long-term care services" means diagnostic, preventive,
					 therapeutic, rehabilitative, supportive, and maintenance services provided on a
					 recurring or continuous basis for the purpose of (i) minimizing the effects of
					 illness or disability, or both, (ii) assisting a person to maintain his highest
					 level of functioning, or (iii) maintaining or restoring independence. Such
					 services may be provided in the recipient's home or in a community setting such
					 as a long-term care facility.
"Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman" means the
					 program administered and funded by the Virginia Department for Aging and
					 Rehabilitative Services that serves as a point of entry, whereby a complaint is
					 received, investigated or referred for investigation, and resolved.
"Older person" or "elderly" or "older individual" means any
					 individual who is 60 years of age or older.
"Planning and service area" or "PSA" means a geographic
					 area of the Commonwealth that is designated for purposes of planning,
					 development, delivery, and overall administration of services under an area
					 plan. Unless otherwise exempted, such planning and service areas shall be
					 coterminous with the planning districts established by the Virginia Department
					 of Planning and Budget, pursuant to §§
										2.2-1501 and
					 15.2-4202 of the Code
					 of Virginia.
"Private nonprofit Area Agency on Aging" means those area
					 agencies created independently of a local governing body. They include Mountain
					 Empire Older Citizens, Appalachian Agency for Senior Citizens, League of Older
					 Americans trading as LOA-Area Agency on Aging, Valley Program for Aging
					 Services, Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging, Central Virginia Alliance for
					 Community Living, Southern Area Agency on Aging, Piedmont Senior Resources Area
					 Agency on Aging, Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging,
					 Rappahannock Area Agency on Aging, Bay Aging, Southeastern Virginia Areawide
					 Model Program trading as Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia, Peninsula
					 Agency on Aging, and Eastern Shore Area Agency on Aging/Community Action
					 Agency.
"Subgrant" means an award of financial assistance in the
					 form of money, or property instead of money, made under a grant by an Area
					 Agency on Aging to an eligible subgrantee. The term includes such financial
					 assistance when provided by contract.
"Subgrantee" or "subcontractor" means the government,
					 nonprofit corporation, or other legal entity to which a grant is awarded and
					 which is accountable to an Area Agency on Aging for the use of the funds
					 provided.
"Substate Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program" means an
					 organizational unit within an Area Agency on Aging, which the Virginia
					 Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services designates, through contract
					 with the Area Agency on Aging, to fulfill the duties of the Office of the State
					 Long-Term Care Ombudsman in a specific geographic area.
"Unit of general purpose local government" means a
					 political subdivision of the state whose authority is general and not limited
					 to only one function or combination of related functions.
Statutory Authority: §
												51.5-131
						of the Code of Virginia;
						42 USC §
													3001 et
						seq.