231B.1 Definitions.
1. “Department” means the department of inspections and appeals or the department’s designee.
2. “Elder” means a person sixty years of age or older.
3. “Elder group home” means a single-family residence that is operated by a person who is providing room, board, and personal care and may provide health-related services to three through five elders who are not related to the person providing the service within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, and which is staffed by an on-site manager twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.
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.
6. “Medication setup” means assistance with various steps of medication administration to support a tenant’s autonomy, which may include but is not limited to routine prompting, cueing and reminding, opening containers or packaging at the direction of the tenant, reading instructions or other label information, or transferring medications from the original container into suitable medication dispensing containers, reminder containers, or medication cups.
7. “Occupancy agreement” means a written agreement entered into between an elder group home and a tenant that clearly describes the rights and responsibilities of the elder group home and the tenant, and other information required by rule. “Occupancy agreement” may include a separate signed lease and signed service agreement.
8. “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, and housekeeping that are essential to the health and welfare of a tenant.
9. “Tenant” means an individual who receives elder group home services through a certified elder group home.
10. “Tenant advocate” means the office of long-term care ombudsman established in section 231.42.
11. “Tenant’s legal representative” means a person appointed by the court to act on behalf of a tenant, or a person acting pursuant to a power of attorney.
93 Acts, ch 72, §2; 2003 Acts, ch 166, §3; 2005 Acts, ch 62, §1; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §135; 2013 Acts, ch 18, §30
Referred to in §142D.2, 144C.2, 144D.1, 231.4, 235E.1, 441.21
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