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Updated: 
November 28, 2023

Who is considered a "dependent adult?"

A “dependent adult” means an adult who has a physical or mental condition that greatly weakens (substantially impairs) the adult’s ability to adequately provide for his/her daily needs. A dependent adult includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:

  • someone who lives in a nursing home;
  • someone who lives in an assisted living facility;
  • someone who is unable to perform self-care because of advanced age or physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect; or
  • someone who, regardless of where s/he lives, is wholly or partially dependent upon one or more other people for care or support, either emotional or physical, because s/he suffers from a significant limitation in mobility, vision, hearing or emotional or mental functioning.1

1 ME ST T. 22 § 3472(6); ME ST T. 17-A § 555(2)(B)