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400.618  Definitions.--As used in ss. 400.616-400.629, the term:

(1)  "Activities of daily living" means functions and tasks for self-care, including eating, bathing, grooming, dressing, ambulating, and other similar tasks.

(2)  "Adult family-care home" means a full-time, family-type living arrangement, in a private home, under which a person or persons provide, for profit or not for profit, room, board, and one or more personal services, as appropriate for the level of functional impairment, for no more than five aged persons or disabled adults who are not relatives. The following establishments are not adult family-care homes:

(a)  An establishment that provides personal services for three or fewer adults who do not receive optional state supplementation under s. 409.212, but that does not hold itself out to the public to be an establishment that regularly provides such services.

(b)  An establishment in which a person or persons provide personal services only to their relatives.

(c)  An establishment that is licensed as an assisted living facility.

(3)  "Aged person" means any person age 60 or over who is currently a resident of the state and who, because of a functional impairment, requires one or more personal services but does not require 24-hour skilled nursing home or institutional care.

(4)  "Agency" means the Agency for Health Care Administration.

(5)  "Aging in place" means remaining in a noninstitutional living environment despite the physical or mental changes that may occur in a person who is aging. For aging in place to occur, needed services are added, increased, or adjusted to compensate for a person's physical or mental changes.

(6)  "Chemical restraint" means a pharmacologic drug that physically limits, restricts, or deprives an individual of movement or mobility, and is used for discipline or convenience and not required for the treatment of medical symptoms.

(7)  "Department" means the Department of Elderly Affairs.

(8)  "Disabled adult" means any person between 18 and 59 years of age, inclusive, who is a resident of the state and who has one or more permanent physical or mental limitations that restrict the person's ability to perform the normal activities of daily living.

(9)  "Personal services" include, but are not limited to, individual assistance with or supervision of activities of daily living; supervision of self-administered medication; and other similar services that the department defines by rule.

(10)  "Provider" means a person who is licensed to operate an adult family-care home.

(11)  "Relative" means an individual who is the father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister of a provider.

History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 85-195; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 4, ch. 93-209; s. 22, ch. 95-210; s. 61, ch. 95-418.