Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 33 > Chapter 62 - Supports for Older Vermonters

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Area agency on aging: means an organization designated by the State to develop and implement a comprehensive and coordinated system of services, supports, and protections for older Vermonters, family caregivers, and kinship caregivers within a defined planning and service area of the State. See
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Choices for Care program: means the Choices for Care program contained within Vermont's Global Commitment to Health Section 1115 demonstration or a successor program. See
• Department: means the Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living. See
• 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}
• Family caregiver: means an adult family member or other individual who is an informal provider of in-home and community care to an older Vermonter or to an individual with Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• gender identity: means an individual's actual or perceived gender identity, or gender-related characteristics intrinsically related to an individual's gender or gender-identity, regardless of the individual's assigned sex at birth. See
• Home- and community-based services: means long-term services and supports received in a home or community setting other than a nursing home pursuant to the Choices for Care component of Vermont's Global Commitment to Health Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration or a successor program and includes home health and hospice services, assistive community care services, and enhanced residential care services. See
• Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
• Older Americans Act: means the federal law originally enacted in 1965 to facilitate a comprehensive and coordinated system of supports and services for older Americans and their caregivers. See
• Older Vermonters: means all individuals residing in this State who are 60 years of age or older. See
• Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
• sexual orientation: means female or male homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• State Plan on Aging: means the plan required by the Older Americans Act that outlines the roles and responsibilities of the State and the area agencies on aging in administering and carrying out the Older Americans Act. See
• State Unit on Aging: means an agency within a state's government that is directed to administer the Older Americans Act programs and to develop the State Plan on Aging in that state. See