N.H. Rev. Stat. § 464-D:4

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 464-D:4 - Definitions

I. "Adult" means an individual who is 18 years of age or older.

II. "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of a person.

III. "Immediate family member" means a spouse, child, sibling, parent, grandparent, grandchild, stepparent, stepchild, or stepsibling.

IV. "Person" means an adult; health-care institution; health-care provider; corporation; partnership; limited liability company; association; joint venture; government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity

V. "Principal" means an adult who enters into a supported decision-making agreement under this chapter to receive decision-making assistance.

VI. "Supported decision-making" means a process of supporting and accommodating an adult with a disability to enable the adult to make life decisions, including, without limitation, decisions related to where the adult wants to live, the services, supports, and medical care the adult wants to receive, whom the adult wants to live with, education, and where the adult wants to work, without impeding the self-determination of the adult.

VII. "Supporter" means an adult who enters into an agreement with an adult with a disability to provide supported decision-making.

VIII. "Support services" means a system of social and other services supplied by private, state, institutional, or community providers designed to help maintain the independence of an adult, including any of the following:

(a) Homemaker-type services, including house repair, home cleaning, laundry, shopping, and the provision of meals.

(b) Companion-type services, including transportation, escort, and facilitation of written, oral, and electronic communication.

(c) Visiting nurse and attendant care.

(d) The provision of health care.

(e) Physical and psychosocial assessments.

(f) Legal assessments and advice.

(g) Education and educational assessment and advice.

(h) Personal treatment or care, including assistance with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, eating, range of motion, toileting, transferring, and ambulation.

(i) Care planning.

(j) Other services needed to maintain the independence of an adult.

RSA 464-D:4

Added by 2021, 206:VI-15, eff. 10/9/2021.

2021, 206:2, Pt. VI, Sec. 15, eff. Oct. 9, 2021.