Section 1568.01 Of Chapter 3.01. Residential Care Facilities For Persons With Chronic Life-threatening Illness From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 3.01.
1568.01
. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Activities of daily living" means housework, meals, laundry,
taking medication, money management, appropriate transportation,
correspondence, telephoning, dressing, feeding, toileting, bathing,
grooming, mobility, and related tasks.
(b) "Care and supervision" means ongoing assistance with
activities of daily living without which a resident's physical
health, mental health, safety, or welfare would be endangered.
(c) "Chronic, life-threatening illness" means HIV disease or AIDS.
(d) "Department" means the State Department of Social Services.
(e) "Director" means the Director of Social Services.
(f) "Family dwelling" includes, but is not limited to,
single-family dwellings, units in multifamily dwellings, including
units in duplexes and units in apartment dwellings, mobilehomes,
including mobilehomes located in mobilehome parks, units in
cooperatives, units in condominiums, units in townhouses, and units
in planned unit developments.
(g) "Family unit" means at least one parent or guardian and one or
more of that parent or guardian's children. For purposes of this
chapter, each family unit shall include at least one adult with HIV
disease or AIDS, at least one child with HIV or AIDS, or both.
(h) "Fund" means the Residential Care Facilities for Persons with
Chronic Life-Threatening Illness Fund created by subdivision (c) of
Section 1568.05.
(i) "Placement agency" means any state agency, county agency, or
private agency which receives public funds, in part, to identify
housing options for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness
and refers these persons to housing.
(j) "Residential care facility" means a residential care facility
for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness who are 18 years
of age or older or are emancipated minors, and for family units.
(k) "Six or fewer persons" does not include the licensee or
members of the licensee's family or persons employed as facility
staff.
(l) "Terminal disease" or "terminal illness" means a medical
condition resulting from a prognosis of a life expectancy of one year
or less, if the disease follows its normal course.