An internal system in organisms that influences behavior in a rhythmic manner. Functions such as growth, feeding, secretion of hormones, the rate of drug action, the wake-sleep cycle, the menstrual cycle, and reproduction coincide with certain external events such as day and night, the tides, and the seasons.
State Veterans Homes Per Diem Program. The Veterans Administration pays the state veterans homes an annually adjusted rate per day for each veteran in the home. This is called the per diem. The 2008 nursing per diem amount is $74.42 and for domiciliary care it is $34.40. Adult Day Health Care â up to one-half of the cost of care â cannot exceed $66.82 per day. The goal of state veterans homes is to get Congress to increase the per diem rate for nursing care to 75% of the state private nursing rates.
This year, federal per diem rates are 5 percent below the average daily rate of the market. As the GSA explains on its website, the per diem rate for an area in the continental 48 United States is actually three allowances: the lodging allowance, the meals allowance and the incidental expense allowance.he lodging rate for the month of September will drop from $226 a night to $219 a night. The Times also noted that the GSA will end a policy that allowed federal employees to spend 25 percent above per diem rates for conferences, which will save agencies an estimated $10 million in fiscal 2014, according to the agency.