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205.455 Definitions for KRS 205.460 and 205.465.
As used in KRS 205.460 and 205.465:
(1) "Chore services" means the performance of heavy housecleaning, minor household
repairs, yard tasks, and other activities needed to assist in the maintenance of a
functionally impaired elderly person in his own home.
(2) "Core services" means those services, including but not limited to client assessment
and case management services, designed to identify a functionally impaired elderly
person's needs, develop a plan of care, arrange for services, monitor the provision of
services, and reassess the person's needs on a regular basis.
(3) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
(4) "District" means an area development district designated pursuant to KRS
147A.050.
(5) "Escort services" means the accompaniment of a person who requires such
assistance for reasons of safety or protection to or from his physician, dentist, or
other necessary services.
(6) "Essential services" means those services which are most needed to prevent
unnecessary institutionalization of functionally impaired elderly persons. Essential
services shall include chore services, home-delivered meals, home-health aide
services, homemaker services, respite services, escort services, and home repair
services.
(7) "Functionally impaired elderly person" means any person, sixty (60) years of age or
older, with physical or mental limitations which restrict individual ability to
perform the normal activities of daily living and which impede individual capacity
to live independently, thus rendering such person at risk of entering an institution.
Functional impairment shall be determined through a functional assessment
developed by the cabinet and delivered to each applicant for essential services.
(8) "Home-delivered meals" means the provision of a nutritionally sound meal, that
meets at least one-third (1/3) of the current daily recommended dietary allowance,
to a functionally impaired elderly person who is homebound by reason of illness,
incapacity, or disability.
(9) "Home-health aide services" means the performance of simple procedures,
including but not limited to personal care, ambulation, exercises, household services
essential to health care at home, assistance with medications that are ordinarily selfadministered, reporting changes in the patient's condition and needs, and completing
appropriate records.
(10) "Homemaker services" means general household activities, including but not
limited to nonmedical personal care, shopping, meal preparation, and routine
household care, provided by a trained homemaker when the person regularly
responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to manage the home
and care for himself or others in the home.
(11) "Home repair services" means the provision of minor home adaptations, additions,
or modifications to enable the elderly to live independently or safely or to facilitate
mobility including, where appropriate, emergency summons systems.
(12) "Respite services" means care provided by an approved caregiver or agency for a
designated time period because of absence or need for relief of a primary caregiver.
Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 226, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 24, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch.
426, sec. 193, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 280, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1988. -- Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 169, sec. 1, effective July 15,
1982.
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