An Act to Amend Title 16 of the Delaware Code Relating to Dementia Care Services in Long-term Care Facilities.
It became law on Aug 1, 2024.
- Stage
- Became law
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- Senate
- Sponsors
- +16
- Latest action
- Aug 1, 2024
What it does
This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 150. Like Senate Bill No. 150, this Act requires included facilities have sufficient staff to meet the needs of each resident and requires dementia care services training for staff. This Act differs from Senate Bill No. 150 in the following ways: (1) it removes the definition of activity services; (2) it defines direct care, secured memory care unit, and memory care services; (3) it requires that assisted living facilities providing dementia care services to residents in a secured memory care unit create a staffing plan that ensures the facility has sufficient staff to meet the scheduled, reasonably foreseeable unscheduled, and evolving needs of…
Where it stands
This bill passed and is now law.
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It is law in Delaware. What happens now is up to the agency that carries it out, the courts, and the place itself.