ARTICLE 2. Definitions
Article 2 repealed and added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 594, Sec. 3.
§§ 15610–15610.70 · 31 sections
- § 15610 The definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise.
- § 15610.02 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The adult protective services program (program), established by the Legislature as a statewide…
- § 15610.05 “Abandonment” means the desertion or willful forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult by anyone having care or custody of that person under circumstances in…
- § 15610.06 “Abduction” means the removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state, or the restraint from returning to this state, of any elder or…
- § 15610.07 (a) “Abuse of an elder or a dependent adult” means any of the following: (1) Physical abuse, neglect, abandonment, isolation, abduction, or other treatment…
- § 15610.10 “Adult protective services” means those activities performed on behalf of elders and dependent adults who have come to the attention of the adult protective…
- § 15610.13 “Adult protective services agency” means a county welfare department, except persons who do not work directly with elders or dependent adults as part of their…
- § 15610.15 “Division” means the Division of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse within the office of the Attorney General.
- § 15610.17 “Care custodian” means an administrator or an employee of any of the following public or private facilities or agencies, or persons providing care or services…
- § 15610.19 “Clergy member” means a priest, minister, rabbi, religious practitioner, or similar functionary of a church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or recognized religious…
- § 15610.20 “Clients’ rights advocate” means the individual or individuals assigned by a regional center or state hospital developmental center to be responsible for…
- § 15610.23 (a) “Dependent adult” means a person, regardless of whether the person lives independently, between the ages of 18 and 64 years who resides in this state and…
- § 15610.25 “Developmentally disabled person” means a person with a developmental disability specified by or as described in subdivision (a) of Section 4512.
- § 15610.27 “Elder” means any person residing in this state, 65 years of age or older.
- § 15610.30 (a) “Financial abuse” of an elder or dependent adult occurs when a person or entity does any of the following: (1) Takes, secretes, appropriates, obtains, or…
- § 15610.35 “Goods and services necessary to avoid physical harm or mental suffering” include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) The provision of medical…
- § 15610.37 “Health practitioner” means a physician and surgeon, psychiatrist, psychologist, dentist, resident, intern, podiatrist, chiropractor, registered nurse, dental…
- § 15610.39 “Imminent danger” means a substantial probability that an elder or dependent adult is in imminent or immediate risk of death or serious physical harm, through…
- § 15610.40 “Investigation” means that activity undertaken to determine the validity of a report of elder or dependent adult abuse.
- § 15610.43 (a) “Isolation” means any of the following: (1) Acts intentionally committed for the purpose of preventing, and that do serve to prevent, an elder or dependent…
- § 15610.45 “Local law enforcement agency” means a city police or county sheriff’s department, or a county probation department, except persons who do not work directly…
- § 15610.47 “Long-term care facility” means any of the following: (a) Any long-term health care facility, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1418 of the Health and…
- § 15610.50 “Long-term care ombudsman” means the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, local ombudsman coordinators, and other persons currently certified as ombudsmen by the…
- § 15610.53 “Mental suffering” means fear, agitation, confusion, severe depression, or other forms of serious emotional distress that is brought about by forms of…
- § 15610.55 (a) “Multidisciplinary personnel team” means any team of two or more persons who are trained in the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of…
- § 15610.57 (a) “Neglect” means either of the following: (1) The negligent failure of any person having the care or custody of an elder or a dependent adult to exercise…
- § 15610.60 “Patients’ rights advocate” means a person who has no direct or indirect clinical or administrative responsibility for the patient, and who is responsible for…
- § 15610.63 “Physical abuse” means any of the following: (a) Assault, as defined in Section 240 of the Penal Code. (b) Battery, as defined in Section 242 of the Penal…
- § 15610.65 “Reasonable suspicion” means an objectively reasonable suspicion that a person would entertain, based upon facts that could cause a reasonable person in a like…
- § 15610.67 “Serious bodily injury” means an injury involving extreme physical pain, substantial risk of death, or protracted loss or impairment of function of a bodily…
- § 15610.70 (a) “Undue influence” means excessive persuasion that causes another person to act or refrain from acting by overcoming that person’s free will and results in…