205.900 Definitions for KRS 205.905 to 205.920.
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As used in KRS 205.905 to 205.920:
(1)"Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
(2)"Evaluation team" means at least three
(3)individuals employed as such by a
qualified agency or organization.
(3)"Personal care assistance services" means services which are required by an adult
with a severe physical disability to achieve greater physical independence and
which include, but are not limited to:
(a)Routine bodily functions, such as bowel or bladder care;
(b)Dressing;
(c)Housecleaning and laundry;
(d)Preparation and consumption of food;
(e)Moving in and out of bed;
(f)Routine bathing;
(g)Ambulation; and
(h)Any other similar activity of daily living.
(4)"Qualified agency or organization" means an agency or organization whose purpose
is to provide services to severely physically disabled adults to enable them to live as
independently as possible and a majority of whose governing board are consumers
of these services. If no qualified agency or organization exists, an agency or
organization may become a qualified provider when consumers of personal care
assistance services are a majority of its advisory council.
(5)"Secretary" means the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
(6)"Severely physically disabled adult" means a person eighteen
(18)years of age or
older with permanent or temporary, recurring functional loss of two
(2)or more
limbs.