§ 63-1-872. Definitions.

As used in the Adult Day Care Act:

1.  "Adult day care center" or "center" means a facility which provides basic day care services to unrelated impaired adults for more than four (4) hours in a twenty-four-hour period.  A center shall be a distinct entity, either freestanding or a separate program of a larger organization.  A center shall have a separately verifiable staff, space, budget and participant record system.  The terms "adult day care center" or "center" shall not include retirement centers and senior citizen centers;

2.  "Basic day care services" means supervised health, social supportive, and recreational services in a structured daytime program which serves functionally impaired adults who continue to live in their own homes, usually with the aid of family care givers;

3.  "Department" means the State Department of Health; and

4.  "Participant" means any person attending an adult day care center.

Added by Laws 1989, c. 192, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1989.  Amended by Laws 1996, c. 104, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 1998, c. 319, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.