/. Abuse - Answer-The intentional infliction of physical harm; injury caused by negligent
acts or omissions; unreasonable confinement; sexual abuse or sexual assault; or a
pattern of ridiculing or demeaning a resident, making derogatory remarks, verbally
harassing, or threatening to inflict physical harm on a resident
/.Accept - Answer-An individual begins living in and receiving services at an assisted
living facility; or<br /> b. An individual begins receiving adult day health care
services or respite care services from an assisted living facility
/.Accident - Answer-means an unexpected occurrence that causes harm to a resident
/.Activities of daily living - Answer-Bathing, dressing, grooming, eating, mobility, transfer,
and toileting.
/.Adult day health care services - Answer-A program that provides planned care
supervision and activities, personal care, personal living skills training, meals and health
monitoring in a group setting during a portion of a continuous twenty-four hour period.
Adult day health services may also include preventive, therapeutic and restorative
health related services that do not include behavioral health services.
/.Adult foster care - Answer-A residential setting which provides room and board and
adult foster care services for at least one and no more than four adults who are
participants in the Arizona long-term care system pursuant to Chapter 29, Article 2 of
this title and in which the sponsor or the manager resides with the residents and
integrates the residents who are receiving adult foster care into that person's family.
/.Applicant - Answer-An individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that has
submitted an application for,
a. An assisted living facility license; b. Department approval of an exemption in R9-10-
702; or c. Department approval of an assisted living training program.
/.Assessment - Answer-A written analysis of a resident's abilities; preferences; and need
for supervisory care services, personal care services, or directed care services.
/.Assistance - Answer-The help or aid necessary to complete a function or a task.
/.Assistant Caregiver - Answer-An assisted living facility that provides resident rooms or
residential units to eleven or more residents.
, /.Assisted living facility - Answer-A residential care institution, including adult foster care,
that provides or contracts to provide supervisory care services, personal care services
or directed care services on a continuing basis.
/.Assisted living home - Answer-An assisted living facility that provides resident rooms
to ten or fewer residents.
/.Bathing - Answer-Washing, rinsing, and drying all parts of an individual's body.
/.Bedbound - Answer-Confined to a bed or chair because of an inability to ambulate
even with assistance.
/.Bedroom - Answer-A portion of a facility that is wall-enclosed with a door where a
resident sleeps and maintains personal items.
/.Behavioral health residential services - Answer-A therapeutic regimen of screening,
evaluation, treatment, or rehabilitation provided on a 24-hour basis to individuals
suffering from mental disorders, emotional conditions, or the effects of substance
abuse.
/.Board of Examiners - Answer-The Board of Examiners of Nursing Care Institution
Administrators and Assisted Living Facility Managers.
/.Caregiver - Answer-An individual who provides supervisory care services, personal
care services, or directed care services to residents.
/.Charge - Answer-A one-time payment or a payment that is not incurred in fixed,
regular intervals.
/.chemical restraint - Answer-Any medication that is administered for purposes of
discipline or convenience and is not required to treat a resident's medical symptoms
/.Clean - Answer-Free of dirt or debris by such methods as washing with soap and
water, vacuuming, wiping, dusting, or sweeping
/.communicable disease - Answer-An infectious disease transmissible (as from person
to person) by direct contact with an affected individual or the individual's discharges or
by indirect means (as by a vector)
The same as defined in A.A.C. R9-6-10.
/.conspicuously posted - Answer-Placed at a location within a facility that is accessible
and visible to residents and the public
/.continuous - Answer-Available at all times without cessation, break, or interruption. 27.
"CPR" means cardiopulmonary resuscitation.