Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 22 > Subtitle 5 - In-Home and Community Support Services for Adults With Long-Term Care Needs

• Activities of daily living: means activities as defined in federal and state rules including those essential to a person's daily living including: eating and drinking; bathing and hygiene; dressing, including putting on and removing prostheses and clothing; toileting, including toilet or bedpan use, ostomy or catheter care, clothing changes and cleaning related to toileting; locomotion or moving between locations within a room or other areas, including with the use of a walker or wheelchair; transfers or moving to and from a bed, chair, couch, wheelchair or standing position; and bed mobility or positioning a person's body while in bed, including turning from side to side. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Activities of daily living: means tasks routinely performed by a person to maintain bodily functions, including bed mobility, transfers, locomotion, dressing, eating, toileting, bathing and personal hygiene. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7401
• Adults with long-term care needs: means adults who have physical or mental limitations which restrict their ability to carry out activities of daily living and impede their ability to live independently, or who are at risk of being, or who already have been, placed inappropriately in an institutional setting. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Agreement: means a contract, grant or other method of payment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Child support: means money paid directly to a parent, to another person or agency awarded parental rights and responsibilities with respect to a child or to the department on behalf of a child receiving public assistance and medical or dental insurance coverage provided on behalf of a child pursuant to court order. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1501
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, a designee or an authorized representative. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Consumer: means a person eligible for services under this subtitle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Consumer assessment: means an evaluation of the functional capacity of an individual to live independently given appropriate supports with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living or through the provision of information about service options that are available to meet the individual's needs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services and its agents and authorized representatives. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101
• Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Direct access: means , with respect to an individual who is receiving services from an essential support worker in an institutional setting or in a home or community setting, access to the individual's property, personally identifiable information, financial information or resources or physical access to the individual. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7401
• Earnings: means compensation paid or payable for personal services, whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus or otherwise, and specifically includes periodic payments pursuant to pension or retirement programs, or insurance policies of any type, and all gain derived from capital, from labor or from both combined, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital assets, and unemployment compensation benefits and workers' compensation benefits. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2101
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Essential support worker: means an individual who by virtue of employment generally provides to individuals direct contact assistance with activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living or has direct access to provide care and services to clients, patients or residents regardless of the setting. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7401
• Home or community setting: means a place of residence or group home where adults with long-term care needs receive in-home and community support services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7401
• In-home and community support services: means health and social services, including behavioral health, and other assistance required to enable persons with long-term care needs to remain in their places of residence or group homes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7401
• In-home and community support services: means health and social services and other assistance required to enable adults with long-term care needs to remain in their places of residence. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Institutional setting: means residential care facilities, licensed pursuant to chapter 1664; intermediate care and skilled nursing facilities and units and hospitals, licensed pursuant to chapter 405; and state institutions for individuals who have intellectual disabilities or autism or other related conditions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7401
• Institutional settings: means residential care facilities, licensed pursuant to chapter 1664; intermediate care and skilled nursing facilities and units and hospitals, licensed pursuant to chapter 405; and state institutions for individuals who have a mental illness or who have intellectual disabilities or autism or other related conditions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Instrumental activities of daily living: means the activities as defined in federal and state rules including those essential, nonmedical tasks that enable the consumer to live independently in the community, including light housework, preparing meals, taking medications, shopping for groceries or clothes, using the telephone, managing money and other similar activities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7302
• Instrumental activities of daily living: includes , but is not limited to, preparing or receiving of a main meal, taking medication, using the telephone, handling finances, banking, shopping, routine housework, laundry and getting to appointments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7401
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Parent: means the legal parent or the legal guardian when no legal parent exists. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101
• Person: means an individual, trust, estate, partnership, association, company, corporation, political subdivision of the State, instrumentality of the State or other entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101
• Personal care assistance services: means services required by an adult with long-term care needs to achieve greater physical independence, which may be self-directed and include, but are not limited to: