Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Health Services
DHS 30-100 - Community Services
Chapter DHS 82 - Certified adult family homes
Section DHS 82.02 - Definitions

Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง DHS 82.02

Current through February 26, 2024

In this chapter:

(1) "Activities of daily living" means:

(a) Activities relating to the performance of self care and engaging in leisure or recreational activities. "Self care" includes dressing, eating, bathing, grooming, toileting, mobility, object manipulation, ambulation and rest;

(b) Activities relating to home and household management, including preparing meals, shopping and chores, personal housekeeping, using the telephone, managing one's personal finances, and health care activities including taking medicine, applying or changing dressings and using a medical device; and

(c) Activities involving movement about in one's community, for purposes that include accessing and participating in vocational, recreational and social activities in the community with other members of the community.

(2) "Adult family home" or "home" means a private residence in which care and maintenance above the level of room and board, but not including nursing care provided by the sponsor, are provided to developmentally disabled adults by a person whose primary domicile is that residence, provided that both of the following conditions apply:

(a) The residence was licensed under s. 48.62, Stats., and ch. DCF 56 as a foster home and all current adult residents resided in the residence at least 12 months before they reached 18 years of age or replaced former adult residents who resided in the residence sometime during the previous 12 months and who left the residence on a permanent basis; and

(b) There are 3 or 4 developmentally disabled residents, or more than 4 if all are siblings, or the sponsor is currently licensed as a foster home for children and there is a combined total of no more than 4 developmentally disabled adults and children residing there, or more than 4 if all adults or all children are siblings.

(3) "Certifying agency" means a county agency that elects to certify adult family homes located in the county or an agent of a county agency who does not also place residents in any type of residential placement or facility or provide placement assistance services and who is authorized by a county agency to certify adult family homes located in the county, or the department in a county where no county agency has elected to certify adult family homes or to designate an agent to certify adult family homes.

(4) "County agency" means a county department of social services established under s. 46.215 or 46.22, Stats., a county department of human services established under s. 46.23, Stats., a county department of community programs established under s. 51.42, Stats., or a county department of developmental disabilities services established under s. 51.437, Stats.

(5) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of health services.

(6) "Developmental disability" has the meaning prescribed in s. 51.01(5), Stats.

(7) "Household member" means any person living in an adult family home, including any resident. "Household" means all household members.

(8) "Nursing care" means services and procedures provided by a registered nurse licensed under ch. 441, Stats., or which require the direct supervision of a registered nurse licensed under ch. 441, Stats.

(9) "Permanent basis" means that a resident of an adult family home has attained 18 years of age, has physically moved himself or herself and his or her possessions out of the home, has established a new residence where he or she intends to remain and has been terminated from the adult family home by the sponsor under s. DHS 82.08.

(10) "Private residence" or "residence" means a house or apartment rented or owned by the sponsor, lived in by the sponsor and not used by the sponsor or anyone else for any business purpose which regularly brings customers to the home so that the residents' use of the home as their residence or the residents' privacy is adversely affected.

(11) "Referring agency" means the agency responsible for placing a resident in an adult family home.

(12) "Resident" means a person who resides in the home and receives care and maintenance provided by the sponsor or substitute provider.

(13) "Service coordinator" means the person who has primary responsibility for arranging, coordinating, managing and monitoring the care and services needed by a resident, including services provided outside of the adult family home.

(14) "Sponsor" means the person certified to operate an adult family home who is responsible for the home, whose primary domicile is the home and who provides care and maintenance to residents of the home.

(15) "Substitute provider" means a person designated by the sponsor to operate and take full responsibility for the adult family home when the sponsor is temporarily absent and cannot provide services or needed supervision.

(16) "Voluntary" means according to a resident's free choice if the resident is competent, or by choice of the resident's guardian if the resident is under guardianship.

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