§ 42-66.13-3. Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Adult� means an individual who is eighteen (18) years of age or older.
(2) "Affairs� means personal, healthcare, and matters arising in the course of activities
of daily living and including those healthcare and personal affairs in which adults
make their own healthcare decisions, including monitoring their own health; obtaining,
scheduling, and coordinating health and support services; understanding healthcare
information and options; and making personal decisions, including those to provide
for their own care and comfort.
(3) "Disability� means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or
more major life activities of a person.
(4) "Good faith� means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable standards of fair
dealing.
(5) "Immediate family member� means a spouse, child, sibling, parent, grandparent, grandchild,
stepparent, stepchild, or stepsibling.
(6) "Person� means an adult; healthcare institution; healthcare provider; corporation;
partnership; limited liability company; association; joint venture; government; governmental
subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or
commercial entity.
(7) "Principal� means an adult with a disability who seeks to enter, or has entered, into
a supported decision-making agreement with a supporter under this chapter.
(8) "Supported decision-making� means a process of supporting and accommodating an adult
to enable the adult to make life decisions, including decisions related to where the
adult wants to live; the services, supports, and medical care the adult wants to receive;
with whom the adult wants to live; and where the adult wants to work, without impeding
the self-determination of the adult.
(9) "Supported decision-making agreement� or "the agreement� means an agreement between
a principal and a supporter entered into under this chapter.
(10) "Supporter� means a person who is named in a supported decision-making agreement and
is not prohibited from acting pursuant to § 42-66.13-6(b).
(11) "Support services� means a coordinated 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:
(i) Homemaker-type services, including house repair, home cleaning, laundry, shopping,
and meal-provision;
(ii) Companion-type services, including transportation, escort, and facilitation of written,
oral, and electronic communication;
(iii) Visiting nurse and attendant care;
(iv) Health care provision;
(v) Physical and psychosocial assessments;
(vi) Legal assessments and advisement;
(vii) Education and educational assessment and advisement;
(viii) Hands-on treatment or care, including assistance with activities of daily living,
such as bathing, dressing, eating, range of motion, toileting, transferring, and ambulation;
(ix) Care planning; and
(x) Other services needed to maintain the independence of an adult.