As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Commissioner” means the commissioner of insurance or the deputy appointed under
section 502.601.
2.“Continuing care” means a continuum of supportive services, home health services,
nursing services, medical services, or other health related services, furnished to a resident,
regardless of whether or not the lodging and services are provided at the same location,
together with housing for residents that elect to live in a facility of a provider, with or without
other periodic charges, and pursuant to one or more contracts effective for the life of the
resident or a period in excess of one year, including mutually cancelable contracts, and in
consideration of an entrance fee.
3.“Continuing care retirement community” means
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of insurance or the deputy appointed under
section 502.601.
2. “Continuing care” means a continuum of supportive services, home health services,
nursing services, medical services, or other health related services, furnished to a resident,
regardless of whether or not the lodging and services are provided at the same location,
together with housing for residents that elect to live in a facility of a provider, with or without
other periodic charges, and pursuant to one or more contracts effective for the life of the
resident or a period in excess of one year, including mutually cancelable contracts, and in
consideration of an entrance fee.
3. “Continuing care retirement community” means a facility or program which provides
continuing care to residents other than residents related by consanguinity or affinity to the
person furnishing their care.
4. “Entrance fee” means an initial or deferred transfer to a provider of a sum of money or
other property made or promised to be made as full or partial consideration for acceptance of
aspecifiedindividualintoafacilityoraprogramiftheamountexceedseitherofthefollowing:
a. Five thousand dollars.
b. The sum of the regular periodic charges for six months.
5. “Facility” means the place or places in which a provider undertakes to provide
continuing care or senior adult congregate living services to an individual.
6. “Living unit” means a room, apartment, cottage, or other area within a facility set aside
for the exclusive use or control of one or more identified residents.
7. “New construction” means construction of a new facility or the expansion of an
existing facility if the expansion involves an increase in the number of living units in excess
of twenty-five percent.
8. “Program” means an organized set of measures or activities undertaken by a provider
to provide continuing care services to an individual.
9. “Provider” means a person undertaking through a lease or other type of agreement to
provide care in or from a continuing care retirement community or senior adult congregate
living facility, even if that person does not own the facility.
10. “Resident” means an individual, sixty years of age or older, entitled to receive care
from a continuing care retirement community or a senior adult congregate living facility.
11. “Senior adult congregate living facility” means a facility which provides senior adult
congregate living services to residents other than residents related by consanguinity or
affinity to the person furnishing their care.
12. “Senior adult congregate living services” means housing and one or more supportive
services furnished to a resident, with or without other periodic charges, in consideration of
an entrance fee.
13. “Supportive services” includes but is not limited to one or any combination of the
following services: laundry, maintenance, housekeeping, emergency nursing care, activity
services, security, dining options, transportation, beauty and barber services, health care,
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and personal care, including personal hygiene, eating, bathing, dressing, and supervised
medication administration.