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.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 121, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2005.)
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