2009 Iowa Code
Title 13 - Commerce
Subtitle 1 - Insurance and Related Regulation
CHAPTER 523D - RETIREMENT FACILITIES
523D.1 - DEFINITIONS.

        523D.1  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Commissioner" means the commissioner of insurance or the
      deputy appointed under section 502.601.
         2.  "Continuing care" means housing together with supportive
      services, nursing services, medical services, or other health related
      services, furnished to a resident, regardless of whether or not the
      lodging and services are provided at the same location, with or
      without other periodic charges, and pursuant to one or more contracts
      effective for the life of the resident or a period in excess of one
      year, including mutually cancelable contracts, and in consideration
      of an entrance fee.
         3.  "Continuing care retirement community" means a facility
      which provides continuing care to residents other than residents
      related by consanguinity or affinity to the person furnishing their
      care.
         4.  "Entrance fee" means an initial or deferred transfer to a
      provider of a sum of money or other property made or promised to be
      made as full or partial consideration for acceptance of a specified
      individual in a facility if the amount exceeds either of the
      following:
         a.  Five thousand dollars.
         b.  The sum of the regular periodic charges for six months of
      residency.
         5.  "Facility" means the place or places in which a provider
      undertakes to provide continuing care or senior adult congregate
      living services to an individual.
         6.  "Living unit" means a room, apartment, cottage, or other
      area within a facility set aside for the exclusive use or control of
      one or more identified residents.
         7.  "New construction" means construction of a new facility or
      the expansion of an existing facility if the expansion involves an
      increase in the number of living units in excess of twenty-five
      percent.
         8.  "Provider" means a person undertaking through a lease or
      other type of agreement to provide care in a continuing care
      retirement community or senior adult congregate living facility, even
      if that person does not own the facility.
         9.  "Resident" means an individual, sixty years of age or
      older, entitled to receive care in a continuing care retirement
      community or a senior adult congregate living facility.
         10.  "Senior adult congregate living facility" means a
      facility which provides senior adult congregate living services to
      residents other than residents related by consanguinity or affinity
      to the person furnishing their care.
         11.  "Senior adult congregate living services" means housing
      and one or more supportive services furnished to a resident, with or
      without other periodic charges, in consideration of an entrance fee.

         12.  "Supportive services" includes but is not limited to one
      or any combination of the following services:  laundry, maintenance,
      housekeeping, emergency nursing care, activity services, security,
      dining options, transportation, beauty and barber services, health
      care, and personal care, including personal hygiene, eating, bathing,
      dressing, and supervised medication administration.  

         89 Acts, ch 217, §1; 91 Acts, ch 205, §11
         Referred to in § 231C.17