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A caregiver shall be either related by blood, marriage, or adoption to, or the legally appointed guardian of, the mentally or physically impaired person for whom he is caring.\n\t\t&#8220;Fund&#8221; means the Virginia Caregivers Grant Fund established by \u00a7 63.2-2202.\n\t\t&#8220;Mentally or physically impaired person&#8221; means a person who is a resident of Virginia that requires assistance with two or more activities of daily living during more than half the year.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":231252,"text":"As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:\n\t\t&#8220;Activities of daily living&#8221; or &#8220;ADLs&#8221; means bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, bowel control, bladder control, and eating\/feeding.\n\t\t&#8220;Assistance&#8221; means aid that is required to be provided by another person in order to safely complete the activity.\n\t\t&#8220;Care for a mentally or physically impaired person&#8221; means assistance with the activities of daily living provided to such person when the person has been screened and has been found to be eligible, in accordance with relevant state regulations, for placement and Medicaid reimbursement for services in an assisted-living facility or a nursing home or for receiving community-based long-term care services.\n\t\t&#8220;Caregiver&#8221; means an adult who is a single person with a Virginia adjusted gross income of not more than $50,000, or married and the combined Virginia adjusted gross income of both spouses is not more than $75,000 who provides care for a mentally or physically impaired person within the Commonwealth. A caregiver shall be either related by blood, marriage, or adoption to, or the legally appointed guardian of, the mentally or physically impaired person for whom he is caring.\n\t\t&#8220;Fund&#8221; means the Virginia Caregivers Grant Fund established by \u00a7 63.2-2202.\n\t\t&#8220;Mentally or physically impaired person&#8221; means a person who is a resident of Virginia that requires assistance with two or more activities of daily living during more than half the year.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":13909,"edition_id":1,"name":"Virginia Caregivers Grant Program","identifier":"22","label":"chapter","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13908,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:46:16","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:46:16","permalink":{"id":272753,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13909,"identifier":"22","token":"63.2\/VI\/22","url":"\/63.2\/VI\/22\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13908,"edition_id":1,"name":"Grant Programs and Funds","identifier":"VI","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12789,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:46:16","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:46:16","permalink":{"id":272719,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13908,"identifier":"VI","token":"63.2\/VI","url":"\/63.2\/VI\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12789,"edition_id":1,"name":"Welfare (Social Services)","identifier":"63.2","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","permalink":{"id":270661,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12789,"identifier":"63.2","token":"63.2","url":"\/63.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":63467,"structure_id":13909,"section_number":"63.2-2200","catch_line":"Definitions","url":"\/63.2-2200\/","token":"63.2\/VI\/22\/63.2-2200","metadata":false},{"id":65682,"structure_id":13909,"section_number":"63.2-2201","catch_line":"Caregivers Grant Program established","url":"\/63.2-2201\/","token":"63.2\/VI\/22\/63.2-2201","metadata":false},{"id":54954,"structure_id":13909,"section_number":"63.2-2202","catch_line":"Virginia Caregivers Grant Fund established","url":"\/63.2-2202\/","token":"63.2\/VI\/22\/63.2-2202","metadata":false},{"id":67818,"structure_id":13909,"section_number":"63.2-2203","catch_line":"Grant application process; administration","url":"\/63.2-2203\/","token":"63.2\/VI\/22\/63.2-2203","metadata":false},{"id":82272,"structure_id":13909,"section_number":"63.2-2204","catch_line":"Confidentiality of information","url":"\/63.2-2204\/","token":"63.2\/VI\/22\/63.2-2204","metadata":false}],"next_section":{"id":65682,"structure_id":13909,"section_number":"63.2-2201","catch_line":"Caregivers Grant Program established","url":"\/63.2-2201\/","token":"63.2\/VI\/22\/63.2-2201","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/63.2-2200\/","history_text":"<p>This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0737\">737<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0763\">763<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2002, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?021+ful+CHAP0747\">747<\/a>; in 2007, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0588\">588<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":55400,"section_number":"15.2-2292.1","catch_line":"Zoning provisions for temporary family health care structures","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-2292.1\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":54954,"section_number":"63.2-2202","catch_line":"Virginia Caregivers Grant Fund established","order_by":null,"url":"\/63.2-2202\/"}],"permalink":{"id":272755,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63467,"identifier":"63.2-2200","token":"63.2\/VI\/22\/63.2-2200","url":"\/63.2-2200\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/63.2-2200\/","token":"63.2\/VI\/22\/63.2-2200","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 63.2-2200","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:\n\t\t&#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">Activities of daily living<\/span>&#8221; or &#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">ADLs<\/span>&#8221; means bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, bowel control, bladder control, and eating\/feeding.\n\t\t&#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">Assistance<\/span>&#8221; means aid that is required to be provided by another person in <span class=\"dictionary\">order<\/span> to safely complete the activity.\n\t\t&#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">Care for a <span class=\"dictionary\">mentally or physically impaired person<\/span><\/span>&#8221; means <span class=\"dictionary\">assistance<\/span> with the <span class=\"dictionary\">activities of daily living<\/span> provided to such person when the person has been screened and has been found to be eligible, in accordance with relevant state regulations, for placement and Medicaid reimbursement for services in an assisted-living facility or a nursing home or for receiving community-based long-term care services.\n\t\t&#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">Caregiver<\/span>&#8221; means an adult who is a single person with a Virginia adjusted gross income of not more than $50,000, or married and the combined Virginia adjusted gross income of both spouses is not more than $75,000 who provides <span class=\"dictionary\">care for a <span class=\"dictionary\">mentally or physically impaired person<\/span><\/span> within the Commonwealth. 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A caregiver shall be either related by blood, marriage, or\nadoption to, or the legally appointed guardian of, the mentally or physically\nimpaired person for whom he is caring.\n\t\t&#8220;Fund&#8221; means the Virginia Caregivers Grant Fund established by \u00a7\n63.2-2202.\n\t\t&#8220;Mentally or physically impaired person&#8221; means a person who is a\nresident of Virginia that requires assistance with two or more activities of\ndaily living during more than half the year.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, cc. 737, 763, \u00a7 63.1-331; 2002, c. 747; 2007, c. 588.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}