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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62473</law_id><section_number>51.5-134</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="51.5">Persons With Disabilities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14">Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Services for Older Virginians</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Access services</span>&#x201D; means care coordination; care transitions; communication, referral, information, and assistance; options counseling; transportation; and assisted transportation.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Aging services</span>&#x201D; means <span class="dictionary">access services</span>, Care Coordination for Elderly Virginians, <span class="dictionary">caregiver services</span>, <span class="dictionary">client services</span>, disease prevention and health promotion services, <span class="dictionary">in-home services</span>, legal assistance, <span class="dictionary">nutrition services</span>, and elder abuse prevention services that are supported with federal and state funds.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Caregiver services</span>&#x201D; means counseling services, including individual counseling, support groups, and caregiver training; respite services, including institutional respite and direct respite services; and supplemental services.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Client services</span>&#x201D; means emergency services, employment services pursuant to Title III of the Older Americans Act, 42 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;3001 et seq., as amended, health education and screening, long-term care coordinating activities, medication management, money management, public information and education, socialization and recreation, and volunteer programs.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Economic need</span>&#x201D; means the need resulting from an income level at or below the poverty line.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">In-home services</span>&#x201D; means adult day care, checking, chore, homemaker, personal care, and residential repair and renovation services.
		&#x201C;Long-term care&#x201D; means any service, care, or item, including a disease prevention and health promotion service, an in-home service, and a <span class="dictionary">case management</span> service that is (i) intended to assist individuals in coping with, and to the extent practicable in compensating for, a functional impairment in carrying out activities of daily living; (ii) furnished at home, in a community care setting, or in a long-term care facility; and (iii) not furnished to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure a medical disease or condition.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Long-term care ombudsman program</span>&#x201D; means the program established in Article 13 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Responsibility for complaints and investigations" href="/51.5-182/">51.5-182</a> et seq.).
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Nutrition services</span>&#x201D; means congregate and home-delivered <span class="dictionary">nutrition services</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Social need</span>&#x201D; means the need caused by noneconomic factors, including (i) physical and mental disabilities, which include developmental disabilities and human immunodeficiency virus; (ii) language barriers; and (iii) cultural, social, or geographic isolation, including that which is related to a history of discrimination for factors such as racial or ethnic status, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation that can affect an individual&#x2019;s ability to perform normal daily tasks or threatens such individual&#x2019;s capacity to live independently.</p></section></text><history>2012, cc. 476, 507, 803, 835; 2020, c. 728; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 299, 300.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
