Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 63.2 > Subtitle VI > Chapter 22 - Virginia Caregivers Grant Program

• ADLs: means bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, bowel control, bladder control, and eating/feeding. See Virginia Code 63.2-2200
• Adult: means a person 18 years of age or more. See Virginia Code 1-203
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assistance: means aid that is required to be provided by another person in order to safely complete the activity. See Virginia Code 63.2-2200
• Care for a mentally or physically impaired person: 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. See Virginia Code 63.2-2200
• Caregiver: 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. See Virginia Code 63.2-2200
• Department: means the State Department of Social Services. See Virginia Code 63.2-100
• Fund: means the Virginia Caregivers Grant Fund established by § 63. See Virginia Code 63.2-2200
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Mentally or physically impaired person: 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. See Virginia Code 63.2-2200
• Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
• Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245