For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Affiliated home care aide" means an individual, 18 years of
age or older, who is employed by a home care organization to provide
home care services to a client and is listed on the home care aide
registry.
(b) "Child" or "children" means an individual or individuals under
18 years of age.
(c) "Client" means an individual who receives home care services
from a registered home care aide.
(d) "Department" means the State Department of Social Services.
(e) "Director" means the Director of Social Services.
(f) "Family member" means any spouse, by marriage or otherwise,
domestic partner, child or stepchild, by natural birth or by
adoption, parent, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister,
parent-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, aunt,
uncle, first cousin, or any person denoted by the prefix "grand" or
"great," or the spouse of any of these persons, even if the marriage
has been terminated by death or dissolution.
(g) "Home care aide applicant" means an individual, 18 years of
age or older, who is requesting to become a registered home care aide
and the department has received and is processing the individual's
complete home care aide application and nonrefundable application
fee.
(h) "Home care aide application" means the official form,
designated by the department, to request to become a registered home
care aide.
(i) "Home care aide registry" means a department-established and
department-maintained Internet Web site of registered home care aides
and home care aide applicants, which includes all of the following:
the individual's name, registration number, registration status,
registration expiration date, and, if applicable, the home care
organization to which the affiliated home care aide or affiliated
home care aide applicant is associated.
(j) "Home care organization" means an individual, 18 years of age
or older, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
joint venture, association, or other entity that arranges for home
care services by an affiliated home care aide to a client, and is
licensed pursuant to this chapter.
(k) "Home care organization applicant" means an individual, 18
years of age or older, or a firm, partnership, corporation, limited
liability company, joint venture, association, or other entity where
the individual or individuals applying for the license are 18 years
of age or older and are requesting to become a home care organization
licensee and the department has received and is processing the
complete home care organization application and nonrefundable
application fee.
(l) "Home care organization application" means the official form,
designated by the department, to request to become a licensed home
care organization.
(m) "Home care organization licensee" means an individual, 18
years of age or older, firm, partnership, corporation, limited
liability company, joint venture, association, or other entity having
the authority and responsibility for the operation or management of
a licensed home care organization.
(n) "Home care services" means nonmedical services and assistance
provided by a registered home care aide to a client who, because of
advanced age or physical or mental disability, cannot perform these
services. These services enable the client to remain in his or her
residence and include, but are not limited to, assistance with the
following: bathing, dressing, feeding, exercising, personal hygiene
and grooming, transferring, ambulating, positioning, toileting and
incontinence care, assisting with medication that the client
self-administers, housekeeping, meal planning and preparation,
laundry, transportation, correspondence, making telephone calls,
shopping for personal care items or groceries, and companionship.
This subdivision shall not authorize a registered home care aide to
assist with medication that the client self-administers that would
otherwise require administration or oversight by a licensed health
care professional.
(o) "Registered home care aide" means an affiliated home care aide
or independent home care aide, 18 years of age or older, who is
listed on the home care aide registry.
(p) "Independent home care aide" means an individual, 18 years of
age or older, who is not employed by a home care organization, but
who is listed on the home care aide registry and is providing home
care services through a direct agreement with a client.