Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 94 - Community-Based Attendant Services

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Attendant services: means those services which compensate for an eligible participant's limitations in performing activities of daily living, self-care or mobility within home or community environments. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9403
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Department: means the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9403
• Division: means the Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Eligible participant: means a resident of the State with a severe, chronic mental or physical disability which precludes or significantly impairs the individual's performance of activities of daily living, self-care or mobility within home or community environments. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9403
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Program: means the Community-Based Attendant Services Program. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9403
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Services: means any of the following support services, whether meeting a basic or ancillary need:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9403