1. “Adult day care center” or “center” means a facility which provides basic day care services to unrelated impaired adults for more than four (4) hours in a twenty-four-hour period. A center shall be a distinct entity, either freestanding or a separate program of a larger organization. A center shall have a separately verifiable staff, space, budget and participant record system. The terms “adult day care center” or “center” shall not include retirement centers and senior citizen centers;

2. “Basic day care services” means supervised health, social supportive, and recreational services in a structured daytime program which serves functionally impaired adults who continue to live in their own homes, usually with the aid of family care givers;

3. “Department” means the State Department of Health; and

4. “Participant” means any person attending an adult day care center.