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Section: Time Away From Work Federal Family and Medical Leave
“Incapable of self care”
The child requires active assistance or supervision to provide daily self care in three or more “activities of daily living,” or “instrumental activities of daily living,” including adaptive activities such as caring appropriately for one’s grooming and hygiene, bathing, dressing, eating, or instrumental activities such as shopping, taking public transportation, maintaining a residence, etc.
“Physical or mental disability”
A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of the individual.
“Serious Health Condition”
Illness, injury, impairment or physical or mental condition that involves:
 Inpatient care in a hospital, hospice or residential medical care facility
 A period of incapacity of more than three consecutive calendar days (including any
subsequent treatment or period of incapacity relating to the same condition) that also involves: 1) treatment two or more times by or under the orders of a health care provider; or 2) treatment by a health care provider on at least one occasion which results in a regimen of continuing treatment under the supervision of a health care provider
 Any incapacity due to pregnancy or for prenatal care
 Chronic conditions requiring periodic treatment by or under the supervision of a health
care provider which continue over an extended period of time and may cause an episodic rather than a continuing period of incapacity (e.g., asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, etc.)
 Permanent/long-term conditions requiring supervision for which treatment may not be effective (e.g., Alzheimer’s, a severe stroke, or the terminal stages of a disease)
Multiple treatments by or under the supervision of a health care provider either for restorative surgery after an accident or other injury or for a condition that would likely result in a period of incapacity of more than three calendar days in the absence of medical intervention or treatment, such as cancer (chemotherapy), severe arthritis (physical therapy) or kidney disease (dialysis).
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