As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Assisted living" means provision of housing with services which may include but are not limited to health-related care, personal care, and assistance with instrumental activities of daily living to six or more tenants in a physical structure which provides a homelike environment. "Assisted living" also includes encouragement of family involvement, tenant self-direction, and tenant participation in decisions that emphasize choice, dignity, privacy, individuality, shared risk, and independence. "Assisted living" includes the provision of housing and assistance with instrumental activities of daily living only if personal care or health-related care is also included.
2. "Department" means the department of elder affairs created in chapter 231 or the department's designee.
3. "Health-related care" means services provided by a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse, on a part-time or intermittent basis, and services provided by other licensed health care professionals, on a part-time or intermittent basis, as defined by rule.
4. "Instrumental activities of daily living" means those activities that reflect the tenant's ability to perform household and other tasks necessary to meet the tenant's needs within the community, which may include but are not limited to shopping, cooking, housekeeping, chores, and traveling within the community.
5. "Personal care" means assistance with the essential activities of daily living which may include but are not limited to transferring, bathing, personal hygiene, dressing, grooming, housekeeping essential to the health and welfare of the tenant, and supervising of self-administered medications, but does not include the administration of medications.
6. "Tenant" means an individual who receives assisted living services through a certified or accredited assisted living program.
96 Acts, ch 1192, §2; 2000 Acts, ch 1004, §14, 22
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