2012 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 94. COMMUNITY-BASED ATTENDANT SERVICES
§ 9403. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.

(1) "Ancillary services" means the following supplemental support services, which may be provided only if an eligible participant qualifies for 1 or more basic support services:

a. Homemaker-type services, including cleaning, laundry, shopping and seasonal chores;

b. Companion-type services, including transportation, escort and facilitation of written, oral and electronic communication;

c. Assistance with cognitive tasks, including bill payment and money management, planning activities and decision-making; and

d. Such other supplemental support services as may be adopted by the Department through regulation.

(2) "Attendant services" means those basic and ancillary services which compensate for an eligible participant's limitations in performing essential activities of daily living, self-care or mobility within home or community environments.

(3) "Basic services" means the following support services:

a. Assistance with transferring to and from a bed, wheelchair, vehicle, or other environmental setting;

b. Help with use of medical and non-medical equipment, devices, or assistive technology;

c. Assistance with routine bodily functions, including, but not limited to:

1. Health maintenance activities;

2. Bathing and personal hygiene;

3. Bowel or urinary evacuation;

4. Dressing and grooming; and

5. Food consumption, preparation and cleanup; and

d. Such other core support services as may be adopted by the Department through regulation.

(4) "Department" means the Department of Health and Social Services.

(5) "Eligible participant" means a resident of the State with a severe, chronic mental or physical disability which precludes or significantly impairs the individual's independent performance of essential activities of daily living, self-care or mobility within home or community environments. For purposes of this paragraph, a "chronic disability" is a medically determinable impairment which can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.

(6) "Program" means the Community-Based Attendant Services Program.

73 Del. Laws, c. 193, § 1.;