Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) In this part:
"care service" means a health service, aged care service or personal care service.
"facility" means a place (other than an individual's private residence) where a care service is provided to a resident of the facility, including—
(a) a hospital; and
(b) a hospice; and
(c) a nursing home, hostel, respite facility or other facility where accommodation, nursing or personal care is provided to individuals who, because of infirmity, illness, disease, incapacity or disability, have a need for accommodation, nursing or personal care; and
(d) a residential aged care facility.
"facility operator" means the entity that is responsible for the management of a facility.
"resident", of a facility, means an individual who is staying at the facility on a temporary or permanent basis to receive accommodation, nursing or personal care.
Examples—resident
a permanent or temporary resident of a residential aged care facility, an in-patient of a hospital, a resident of a hospice
(2) In this section:
"disability"—see the Disability Services Act 1991
, dictionary.
"health service"—see the Health Act 1993
"medicine"—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008
, section 11 (1).
"personal care service" means assistance or support of a personal nature that is provided to an individual under a contract, agreement or other arrangement, and includes—
(a) assistance with bathing, showering, personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, undressing or meals; and
(b) assistance with mobility problems; and
(c) assistance or supervision in administering medicine; and
(d) the provision of substantial emotional support.
"residential aged care facility" means a residential facility that provides residential care to residents at the facility.
"residential care"—see the Aged Care Act 1997
(Cwlth), section 41- 3.