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210 ILCS 45/1-120 (2026)

"Personal care" means assistance with meals, dressing, movement, bathing or other personal needs or maintenance, or general supervision and oversight of the physical and mental well-being of an individual, who is incapable of maintaining a private, independent residence or who is incapable of managing his person whether or not a guardian has been appointed for such individual

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(210 ILCS 45/1-120) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4151-120)
    Sec. 1-120. "Personal care" means assistance with meals, dressing, movement, bathing or other personal needs or maintenance, or general supervision and oversight of the physical and mental well-being of an individual, who is incapable of maintaining a private, independent residence or who is incapable of managing his person whether or not a guardian has been appointed for such individual.
(Source: P.A. 81-223.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 2001–2013 · leading case: Eads v. Heritage Enter., Inc., 757 N.E.2d 107 (Ill. App. Ct. 2001).
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Eads v. Heritage Enter., Inc., 757 N.E.2d 107 (Ill. App. Ct. 2001). “laundry services" (210 ILCS 45/1-116 (West 1998)); and (2) personal care as "assistance with meals, dressing, movement, bathing[,] or other personal needs or maintenance, or general supervision and oversight of the physical and *114 mental well-being of an individual, who is…”
Cmty. Living Options, Inc. v. The Dep't of Pub. Health, 2013 IL App (4th) 121056 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013). “” 210 ILCS 45/1-120 (West 2008). ¶ 71 Section 350.”
Eads v. Heritage Enter., Inc., 787 N.E.2d 771 (Ill. 2003). “210 ILCS 45/1-117 (West 2000). "Personal care" is defined to mean assistance with, among other things, "movement, bathing or other personal needs or maintenance, or general supervision and oversight of the physical and mental well-being" of the resident.”
Eads v. Heritage Enter., Inc. (Ill. App. Ct. 2001). “] and laundry services" (210 ILCS 45/1-116 (West 1998)); and (2) personal care as "assistance with meals, dressing, movement, bathing[,] or other personal needs or maintenance, or general supervision and oversight of the physical and mental well-being of an individual, who is…”
Myers v. Heritage Enter., Inc. (Ill. App. Ct. 2004). “210 ILCS 45/1-120 (West 2000). Consequently, the plain language of the statute indicates that the appropriate standard of care for liability under the Act is one of ordinary negligence, which does not require expert testimony.”
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