Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 22 > Subtitle 5 > Chapter 1627 - Essential Support Worker Reimbursement

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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: