Tennessee Code Title 71. Welfare § 71-2-401

(1) “Adult day care” means services provided to five (5) or more adult recipients, for more than three (3) hours per day, by a provider of such services who is not related to such adult, pursuant to an individualized plan of care designed to maintain or restore each adult's optimal capacity for self care through medical or social services;

(2) “Adult day care center” means a facility that provides adult day care services;

(3) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of human services;

(4) “Department” means the department of human services; and

(5) “Related” means, for purposes of this part, a person who is related to the adult day care services recipient as a legal or biological parent, spouse, child, sibling, aunt, uncle, nephew or niece of any degree, grandparent or grandchild of any degree, or cousin to the third degree, or a step parent, or a step grandparent of any degree.