Our Objective
To provide senior living professionals, caregivers, family members, and friends with resources to support person-centered care for seniors living in any senior care environment.
The Artifacts of Culture Change Tool
This is an internal implementation, inspiration, and self-assessment tool. It is a tool that a nursing home or assisted living community on a culture change journey can use to become aware of concrete changes that leading homes have made to their policies, practices, and environment due to their commitment to the principles of culture change.
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
A Guide to Strengthening Resident Councils
This Resident Council Guide has been developed with national partners to guide residents – and those who support them – help build a nursing home community in which residents are respected and valued—a place where residents have a sense of purpose and their well-being is the primary concern. Residents from around the country provided feedback to help create this guide.
Consumer Brochure
While staying in a nursing home, your caregivers will work with you to develop a written plan that details the care you need and want. This brochure can be used to help bring your voice to the care plan meeting. Caregivers have the jobs that they do because they CARE about people! They want to hear from you!
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The 10 Principle of the Eden Alternative
Bowman-Eden-Alternative-Ten-Principles-2020-Refreshed-and-Renewed.pdf
Dining Practice Standards Pioneer Network
Food and Dining requirements are core components of quality of life and quality of care in nursing homes. CMS notes that the most frequent questions and concerns received by their staff focus on the physical environment and dining/food policies in nursing homes. Therefore, in 2010 the Pioneer Network and CMS held their second co-sponsored nation symposium Creating Home II National Symposium on Culture Change and the Food and Dining Requirements, sponsored by the Hulda B. & Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation. The including nursing home staff, regulators, provider leadership, researchers, registered dietitians, vendors and advocates for culture change to bring you this Standard of Practice for Individualized nutrition Approaches & Diet Liberalization.
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Consistent Assignment Flyer
Building strong relationships between residents and staff in order to improve resident quality of care and quality of life is at the heart of consistent assignment. Download this one-page flyer to learn more… Click Here.
A Process for Care Planning for Resident Choice
The Person-Centered Care Planning process supports long term care communities in their efforts to honor residents’ choices that influence quality of care and quality of life, while mitigating potential risks associated with those choices. Click here to learn more! (PDF)