Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 68.02 - Definitions
In this chapter:
(1) "Administering agency" means any of the
following:
(a) The county agency selected by
the county board under s.
46.87(3) (c),
Stats.
(b) The agency selected by a
tribal government under s.
46.87(3) (d),
Stats.
(c) A private nonprofit
organization selected by the department under s.
DHS
68.04.
(2) "Adult family home" means:
(a) A home certified by a county department
of social services established under s.
46.215 or
46.22, Stats., or a county
department of human services established under s.
46.23, Stats., in which one or 2
adults unrelated to the operator reside and which provides a structured living
arrangement for residents whose physical, developmental and emotional
functioning is likely to be maximized in this family-type living arrangement;
or
(b) A home certified under s.
50.032, Stats., and ch. DHS
82.
(4) "Caregiver"
means any person other than a paid provider who provides care for a person with
dementia.
(5) "Community-based
residential facility" or "CBRF" means a facility licensed under ch. DHS 83 in
which 3 [5] or more unrelated adults reside and receive care and treatment or
services above the level of room and board but not including nursing
care.
(6) "County agency" means an
agency designated by a county board under s.
46.87(3) (c),
Stats., to administer the program, namely, a county department of social
services created under s.
46.215 or
46.22, Stats., a county
department of human services created under s.
46.23, Stats., a county aging
unit, or a resource center authorized under s.
46.283, Stats., and ch. DHS
10.
(6m) "Dementia" means a
degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized especially by
premature cognitive deterioration. This includes Alzheimer's disease and
related diagnoses which are similarly marked by irreversible deterioration of
intellectual faculties with concomitant emotional disturbance resulting from
organic brain disorder, such as:
(a) Chronic
Traumatic Encephalopathy.
(b)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome.
(c)
Frontotemporal dementias.
(d)
Huntington's disease.
(e)
Korsakoff's Syndrome.
(f) Lewy-body
disease.
(g) Parkinson's
disease.
(h) Progressive
supranuclear palsy.
(i) Vascular
dementia.
(j) Any other
neurocognitive brain disorder that results in the irreversible deterioration of
intellectual faculties.
(7) "Department" means the Wisconsin
department of health services.
(8)
"Expand services" means to expand the staffing, size of physical plant, or
programming for an existing service offered by a service provider and included
in a category listed under s.
DHS 68.06(2)
(b) in order to increase by at least 10% over
the number served prior to expansion the number of persons with dementia or
their caregivers who are served by the provider, or to significantly improve,
in the judgment of the administering agency contracting with the provider, the
quality of services or service delivery for persons with dementia or for their
caregivers. A service is no longer defined as "expanded" 3 years after the
starting date of its expansion.
(9)
"Goods and services" means, unless otherwise qualified, goods and services
purchased or provided under any of the categories listed under s.
DHS 68.06(2)
(b).
(10) "Household" means a person with dementia
living alone or a person with dementia and the caregiver or caregivers with
whom he or she lives, except that for purposes of determining financial
eligibility under s.
DHS
68.07(3) and for purposes of
determining ability to pay for the cost of program goods and services under s.
DHS
68.08, "household" means only the person with dementia
and spouse.
(11) "Income" means
gross earnings including money, wages or salary, net income from non-farm
self-employment and net income from farm self-employment, and unearned income
including social security, dividends, interest on savings or on money loaned,
income from estates or trusts, net rental income or royalties, public
assistance, pensions or annuities, unemployment compensation, worker's
compensation, maintenance payments under s.
767.56, Stats., child support,
family support, veterans' pensions, and educational grants given for living
expenses.
Note: "Public assistance" includes but is not limited to programs such as aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) and supplemental security income (SSI).
(12) "Medical assistance" means the
assistance program operated by the department under ss.
49.43 to
49.497, Stats.
(13) "New program" means any goods or
services under one or more of the categories listed under s.
DHS
68.06(2) developed or offered for the
first time by a service provider under contract with an administering agency,
to clients or beneficiaries, at least half of whom are persons with dementia or
their caregivers. A program is no longer defined as "new" 3 years after its
starting date.
(14) "Private
nonprofit organization" has the meaning prescribed for"nonprofit organization"
in s. 108.02(19),
Stats.
(15) "Program" means, unless
otherwise qualified, the Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program under
s. 46.87, Stats.
(16) "Residential facility" means an adult
family home or a community-based residential facility.
(17) "Respite" means temporary relief from
caregiving responsibilities.
(18)
"Respite services" means any service granting respite, which is provided at
home, such as assisting services, help with household chores, assistance with
providing personal care, medication management or wound care for the person
with dementia, or provided by an adult day center or short-term in an
institutional setting. Respite services may also include expenses related to
caregivers attending support groups, receiving individual counseling,
activities related to maintaining the caregiver's physical or psychological
well-being, or other services approved by the administering agency.
(19) "Tribal government" means a governing
body of a tribe.
(20) "Tribal
service area" means the geographic area designated by a tribe, and approved by
the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs or Indian Health Service, in which a tribal
government provides services to its members.
(21) "Tribe" has the meaning given in s.
46.87(1) (c),
Stats.
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