                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 63.2-2200)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
		&#8220;Activities of daily living&#8221; or &#8220;ADLs&#8221; means bathing,
dressing, toileting, transferring, bowel control, bladder control, and
eating/feeding.
		&#8220;Assistance&#8221; means aid that is required to be provided by another
person in order to safely complete the activity.
		&#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.
		&#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.
		&#8220;Fund&#8221; means the Virginia Caregivers Grant Fund established by §
63.2-2202.
		&#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.

HISTORY: 1999, cc. 737, 763, § 63.1-331; 2002, c. 747; 2007, c. 588.