Words matter and these papers address the importance of language in creating a culture of aging that is life affirming, humane and meaningful
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The Power of Language to Create Culture
Words matter and these papers address the importance of language in creating a culture of aging that is life affirming, humane and meaningful
Getting Started: Selecting and Prioritizing Changes
Adds tools to the original Getting Started toolkit for selecting and prioritizing changes in practices related to the living, working, and caregiving environment
Dining Memory and Food for Thought
Ideas from neuroscience, psychology and literature that can be used as tools to help build alternate approaches to choice and dining in nursing homes
Values Card
Values of Pioneer Network
Creating Home in the Nursing Home Environment
Explores ways in which nursing homes can be designed to reflect house and operated to reflect a home
Household Models for Nursing Home Environments (Power Point)
Illustrates the household model vs. the traditional institutional nursing home
Lighting: Partner in Quality Care Environments
Describes the importance of adequate lighting in senior living environments
Home Style Dining Interventions in Nursing Homes: Implications for Practice
An overview of meal service in nursing homes, reasons for implementing home style dining, outcomes of home style dining intervention, and implementation challenges and recommendations
Pathway to Transforming Dining
Promising practices to de-institutionalize the dining experience
