231B.1 - DEFINITIONS.
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 the long-term care
resident's advocate 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. Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 72, § 2; 2003 Acts, ch 166, §3; 2005 Acts, ch 62, §1;
2007 Acts, ch 215, §135
Referred to in § 142D.2, 144C.2, 231.44, 235E.1