The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
- (1) “Attendant services” means those services which compensate for an eligible participant’s limitations in performing activities of daily living, self-care or mobility within home or community environments.
- (2) “Department” means the Department of Health and Social Services.
- (3) “Eligible participant” means a resident of the State with a severe, chronic mental or physical disability which precludes or significantly impairs the individual’s performance of activities of daily living, self-care or mobility within home or community environments. For purposes of this paragraph, a “chronic disability” is a medically determinable impairment which can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.
- (4) “Program” means the Community-Based Attendant Services Program.
(5) “Services” means any of the following support services, whether meeting a basic or ancillary need:
- a. Homemaker-type services, including cleaning, laundry, shopping and chores.
- b. Companion-type services, including transportation, escort and facilitation of written, oral and electronic communication.
- c. Assistance with cognitive tasks, including bill payment and money management, planning activities and decision-making.
- d. Assistance with transferring to and from a bed, wheelchair, vehicle, or other environmental setting.
- e. Help with the use of medical and nonmedical equipment, devices, or assistive technology.
f. Assistance with routine bodily functions, including:
- 1. Health maintenance activities.
- 2. Bathing and personal hygiene.
- 3. Bowel or urinary evacuation.
- 4. Dressing and grooming.
- 5. Food consumption, preparation, and cleanup.
- g. Such other support services as may be adopted by the Department through regulation.
73 Del. Laws, c. 193, § 1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 63, § 1