As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Adult day services" means adult day services as defined in section 231D.1.
2. "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 three 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.
3. "Department" means the department of elder affairs created in chapter 231 or the department's designee.
4. "Governmental unit" means the state, or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision or any department, division, board, or other agency of any of these entities.
5. "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.
6. "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.
7. "Legal representative" means a person appointed by the court to act on behalf of the tenant, or a person acting pursuant to a power of attorney.
8. "Occupancy agreement" means a written agreement entered into between an assisted living program and a tenant that clearly describes the rights and responsibilities of the assisted living program and a tenant, and other information required by rule. "Occupancy agreement" may include a separate signed lease and signed service agreement.
9. "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.
10. "Recognized accrediting entity" means a nationally recognized accrediting entity that the department recognizes as having specific assisted living program standards equivalent to the standards established by the department for assisted living programs.
11. "Tenant" means an individual who receives assisted living services through a certified assisted living program.
12. "Tenant advocate" means the office of long-term care resident's advocate established in section 231.42.
13. "Tenant's representative" means a tenant's legal representative or any representative authorized by the tenant to act on behalf of the tenant.
96 Acts, ch 1192, §2; 2000 Acts, ch 1004, §14, 22; 2003 Acts, ch 165, §19; 2003 Acts, ch 166, §8, 9
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