Recipe for Home

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Recipe for Home

• Resident Rights Week 2008

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Recipes, Recipes..

• 398 thats the total number of recipes on the
  food network website for spaghetti!
• Whose meatloaf recipe is best? Yours? Your
  moms? Your mother-in-laws?

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Variety

• . is the spice of life
• Just as we cant all agree on the perfect
  spaghetti or meatloaf, the definition of HOME is
  also personalized and can be very different
  things.
• And, if we eat the same meatloaf every day, we
  soon would tire of that meatloaf!

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Gadgets Tools

• Every chef needs certain tools in order to be
  successful. In order for you to be successful
  with this recipe, you will need the secret
  ingredient

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RESIDENT DIRECTION
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Resident Direction

• Who are we cooking for?
• Who is paying for the ingredients?
• Who is the expert?
• Who should we be listening to?

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Answer

• The resident!

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Take a Little Help From Our Sous Chefs..

• Providers that have embraced PEER and the
  resident perspective
• Valley View Nursing Center
• (Lycoming County)
• Gino J. Merli Veterans Center (Lackawanna
  County)

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ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS

• RESPECT
• Know use my NAME (honey cannot be used as a
  substitute).
• Ask about my preferences HEAR me when I answer
  you VALUE my opinion.
• Do not think you (i.e. staff) know best I am
  the customer.
• I am a PERSON not a task on a to-do list.
• Respect protect opportunities for me to be
  independent.

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• Variety
• Food Choices over 100 PEERs surveyed top
  answer! (Corporate menus do not offer familiar,
  regional meals, and do not allow for
  personalization)
• Activities key elements here are Adult (not
  XX shame on you!) Reflect past hobbies
  current interests Scheduled based on RESIDENT
  preferences

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• Communication
• Involve ME in care decisions and care plans.
• Be concerned with my satisfaction. ASK my
  opinion regarding policies, programs, and
  changes.
• Support an EMPOWERED Resident Council.

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• Comfort Fun
• Fish are NOT pets! (Can you pet a fish?)
• I wont die from hot wings beer.
• I wont melt if I go outside in inclement
  weather.
• I still might enjoy going to WalMart, or to a
  restaurant, or to a real church.
• Maybe I would like to surf the net.

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Preparation

• Mix ingredients well in equal parts.
• Season to taste.

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Seasonings to consider for added flavor

• A shower offered more
• than twice a week
• Less noise especially at night(How does your
  home sound at night?)
• How about a REAL egg?
• Furniture bed linens that arent institutional

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Finishing Details

• Once all ingredients are mixed - be patient
  CHANGE takes time!
• The energy of change will take the ingredients
  and transform the facility into a HOME.
• And, what is a HOME?

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What is a HOME?

• A comfortable place where you WANT to be!

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Yield

• One comfortable place we can all call HOME
• Improved Quality of life for everyone
• More pleasant work environment for staff.

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Recipe courtesy of

• PEERs across the Commonwealth
• Dedicated PEER Coordinators
• Your local Ombudsman
• The State LTC Ombudsman Program at the PA
  Department of Aging