71 Pa. Stat. § 581-2
As used in this article:
"Area agency" means the single local agency designated by the department within each planning and service area to administer the delivery of a comprehensive and coordinated plan of social and other services and activities.
"Area plan" means the plan submitted to the department by an area agency describing the methods by which it will ensure a coordinated and comprehensive plan of social and other services and activities in the planning and service area.
"Council" means the Pennsylvania Council on Aging.
"Department" means the Department of Aging.
"Domiciliary care" is a protected living arrangement in the community which provides a safe, supportive, homelike residential setting for three or less adults who are unrelated to the domiciliary care provider, who cannot live independently in the community, and who are placed by an area agency.
"Federal Older Americans Act of 1965" means Public Law 89-73, 42 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq., as amended.
"Long-term care" means those services designed to provide diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, supportive or maintenance services for individuals who have chronic functional impairments in a variety of institutional and noninstitutional care settings, including the home.
"Older adults, older persons, aged, aging, elderly" mean those persons residing within Pennsylvania who are age sixty or over, or other individuals authorized by law.
"Planning and service area" means the geographic unit within the State, as authorized by the Federal Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, for allocation of funds for the delivery of social services.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of Aging.
"Sole State agency" means the Department of Aging.
"Unit of general purpose local government" means, as used with reference to the designation of area agencies on aging, a county or other unit which carries general government authority for an area designated as a planning and service area under this act or a combination of such units.
71 P.S. § 581-2