Utah Admin. Code R510-302-4 - Definitions
(1) Definitions found in Section
26B-6-201.
(2) "Activities of daily living" (ADL's)
means the ability to:
(a) take a full body
bath or shower, including transfer in and out of the bath or shower;
(b) tend to personal hygiene needs, including
care of teeth, dentures, shaving, and hair care;
(c) put on, fasten and take off clothing, and
select appropriate attire;
(d) walk
without supervision or cues, including using a walker or cane;
(e) use steps or ramps;
(f) use toilet or commode, including
transferring on and off toilet, cleansing self, changing pads, and caring for
colostomy or catheter in appropriate manner;
(g) transfer without supervision or devices
in and out of a bed or chair; and
(h) the ability to feed oneself, prepare
food, drink or use necessary adaptive devices.
(3) "Instrumental activities of daily living"
(IADL's) means the core life activities of independent living, including using
the telephone, managing money, preparing meals, doing housework, remembering to
take medications, providing for one's necessities, and obtaining
services.
(4) "Durable" with
respect to a power of attorney, means not terminated by the principals
incapacity.
(5) "Conservator" means
an individual or agency appointed by a court in accordance with Section
75-5-401.
(6) "Guardian" means an individual or agency
appointed by a court in accordance with Section
75-5-303.
(7) "Incapacitated person" is as defined in
Subsection
75-1-201(22).
(8) "Intentionally" is as defined in
Subsection
76-2-103(1).
(9) "Knowingly" is as defined in Subsection
76-2-103(2).
(10) "Lifestyle choice" means a knowing and
voluntary choice to live a certain way, including a non-conventional way, by a
person who has capacity to make that choice.
(11) "Limited capacity" means that an adult
person's ability to understand, communicate, make decisions regarding the
nature and consequences the person's life or property is limited in one or
more, but not all, functional areas, or during identified times of day, due to
a mental illness, developmental disability, organic brain disorder, physical
illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, short-term
memory loss, or other cause.
(12)
"Long-term care facility" is as defined in Section
26B-2-301.
(13) "Power of attorney" means a writing or
other record that grants authority to an agent to act in the place of the
principal, whether or not the term power of attorney is used.
(14) "Protective intervention funding" means
payments made to the vulnerable adult, family, or caregiver or other provider
that will alleviate or resolve a protective need.
(15) "Protective needs" means factors
identified by the APS protective needs assessment that pose significant risk
for, or are the result of abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable
adult.
(16) "Protective needs
assessment" means an assessment of a vulnerable adult's impairments and alleged
risk factors for abuse, neglect or exploitation that are found to be present in
that APS case investigation.
(17)
"Protective services" means services to protect a vulnerable adult from abuse,
neglect, or exploitation.
(18)
"Protective supervision" means an APS service offered to reduce or resolve a
vulnerable adult's protective need.
(19) "Recklessly" is as defined in Subsection
76-2-103(3).
(20) "Respite care" means a time-limited
period of relief from care giving responsibilities paid to a respite care
provider or individual from protective intervention funds.
(21) "Service plan" means a document created
by the APS caseworker for an approved short term service case that includes a
goal, objectives, methods, and progress reviews to resolve the protective needs
identified in an APS investigation, and that implements recommendations of the
case review committee.
(22) "Short
term services" include: crisis intervention, emergency shelter, protective
supervision, respite care, supported living services, or short term
intervention funding.
(23) "Short
term intervention funding" means short term payments made to the vulnerable
adult, family, or caregiver or other provider, during a short term service case
for goods or services other than for respite care or supported living, that
will alleviate or resolve a protective need.
(24) "Supported living" means short term
payments made to individuals or providers that enable the vulnerable adult to
remain in their own home or in the home of a relative.
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