Part 1 — Interpretation
1 Definitions
(a) "continuing care home" means a facility or part of a facility
where facility-based care is provided to residents, some of
whom must be eligible residents;
(b) "continuing care home operator" means a person or
organization that operates a continuing care home and
provides facility-based care in that continuing care home;
(c) "Court" means the Court of King's Bench;
(d) "department" means the de partment administered by the
Minister;
(e) "director" means the director designated under section 38;
(f) "eligible individual" means an individual who meets the
eligibility criteria under section 11;
(g) "eligible resident" means an individual who meets the
eligibility criteria under section 7;
(h) "facility-based care" means the group of goods and services
that is provided on an ongoing basis to residents of a
continuing care home and that is made up of the following:
(i) prescribed accommodation goods and services;
(ii) prescribed health goods and services;
(iii) prescribed other goods and services;
(i) "home and community care" means the prescribed health
goods and services and prescribed other goods and services
that are provided by a home and community care provider to
an eligible individual in the individual's home or
community, but does not include facility-based care or
supportive living services;
(j) "home and community care provider" means a person or
organization that provides home and community care under
this Act, but does not include an individual employed or
engaged for services by that person or organization who
gives or administers home and community care directly to
an individual;
(k) "licensee" means a contin uing care home operator or
supportive living accommodation operator that holds a valid
licence issued under this Act;
(l) "Minister" means the Minister determined under section 16
of the Government Organization Act as the Minister
responsible for this Act;
(m) "official administrator" m eans an official administrator
appointed in respect of a continuing care home under
section 31;
(n) "other goods an d services" means,
(i) with respect to facility-based care, the goods and
services included in facility-based care other than health
goods and services and accommodation goods and
services, and
(ii) with respect to home an d community care, the goods and
services included in home and community care other
than health goods and services;
(o) "prescribed" means prescribed by the regulations;
(p) "provide" includes, with respect to facility-based care,
supportive living services or home and community care,
entering into an agreement with a party for the provision by
the party of facility-based care, supportive living services or
home and community care to residents of a continuing care
home or supportive living accommodation or to eligible
individuals;
(q) "record" means record as defined in the Protection of
Privacy Act;
(r) repealed 2024 c10 s10;
(s) "resident of Alberta" means a person lawfully entitled to be
or remain in Canada, who makes the person's home and is
ordinarily present in Alberta, and any other person deemed
by the regulations under Part 1 of the Alberta Health Care
Insurance Act to be a resident of Alberta, but does not
include a tourist, transient or visitor to Alberta;
(t) "specified measures order" means an order issued under
section 23(1)(a);
(u) "stop order" means a stop order issued under section
23(1)(b);
(v) "supportive living accommodation" means buildings or units
in buildings that are intended for permanent or long-term
residential living
(i) where supportive living services are provided in order to
assist residents to live as independently as possible, and
(ii) where, subject to sec tion 2, the prescribed minimum
number of adult residents reside,
but does not include a private dwelling where an individual
provides care or services only to the individual's family
members or friends;
(w) "supportive living accommodation operator" means a
person or organization that operates a supportive living
accommodation and provides supportive living services in
that supportive living accommodation;
(x) "supportive living services" means the prescribed goods and
services, some or all of which are provided to a resident of a
supportive living accommodation by a supportive living
accommodation operator that relate to
(i) safety, security or personal welfare, and
(ii) the provision of meals or accommodation services,
but does not include facility-based care or home and
community care.
2022 cC-26.7 s1;AR 217/2022;2024 c10 s10;2025 c21 s3;AR 141/2025