Illustrates the case for private vs. shared bedrooms
Archives: Resources
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Low Cost Strategies to Transform Nursing Home Environments: Towards Better Quality of Life
Describes low cost ways that a nursing home’s physical environment can be transformed to create home for the people that live there
Flexible Dining Starter Exercise
This is part of Step Three of the Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
Flexible Dining Tipsheet
Part of Starter Toolkit for Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
The Food and Dining Side of the Culture Change Movement: Dining Symposium Background Paper
Provides the history of the culture change movement as it pertains to the physical environment, a summary of current research into building design issues and innovations, and a review of relevant federal long term care and Life Safety Code regulations… Read more
Dining Practice Standards
Nationally agreed upon food and dining standards of practice support individualized care and self-directed living versus traditional diagnosis-focused treatment for people living in nursing homes
Enhancing the Quality of Nursing Home Dining Assistance
Findings of the Agency for Health Research and Quality study of Paid Feeding Assistant programs
Survey Interpretation of Regulations
Potential regulatory and survey issues related to food and dining innovations
Food, Pharmacy and Culture Change: A Recipe for Success
The role of the consultant pharmacist in concert with the interdisciplinary team in identifying drug-food interactions, determining what education to provide the elder
The Deep Seated Issue of Choice
Addresses the issue of resident self-determination through a focus on the dining experience
