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Residents' Rights Month 2014 - Better Staffing: The Key to Better Care

October 01, 2014 - October 31, 2014        

 

Residents' Rights Month is an annual event designated by the Consumer Voice and is celebrated in October to honor residents living in all long-term care facilities, including nursing homes, sub acute units, assisted living, board and care and retirement communities. It is a time for celebration and recognition offering an opportunity for every facility to focus on and celebrate awareness of dignity, respect and the value of each individual resident. The theme for Residents' Rights Month 2014 is, "Better Staffing: The Key to Better Care" with the goal of encouraging residents and others to be educated about staffing and long-term care.

Purchase Residents' Rights Month Products

View Resident's Voice entries.

2014 Residents' Rights Month Packet of Materials

Each year, the Consumer Voice develops a packet to help you plan your Residents’ Rights events. The packet is completely downloadable and features ready-to-use items, including promotional materials, activities to celebrate Residents' Rights Month, training tools and resources.

Introduction & Overview

Training Materials and Staffing Resources

Promotional Materials

Residents' Rights Month Resources

The Resident's Voice Challenge 2014 - View this year's entries

The Resident’s Voice is an opportunity for residents from facilities across the country to share their ideas about this year’s Residents’ Rights Month theme with other residents, ombudsmen, families, community members and nursing home staff. Challenge information coming soon.

Residents are encouraged to think about and respond to the following questions:

  1. Why are adequate staffing levels in nursing homes important to you?

  2. Describe a time when a staff person has gone out of their way to help you or made you feel special.

  3. Describe a time when you raised a concern about staffing at your facility and your voice was heard.

  4. What do you think should be done to ensure there is enough staff to provide good care to residents in all nursing homes?

Residents can respond to the questions in writing (poems, stories), through art of any kind or with video’s/recordings. We encourage facilities/families to frame resident entries and hang them in residents’ rooms or other areas of the facility.

Plus, we will be creating a calendar in honor of this year’s theme!  Send us photos of residents and staff along with quotes from the residents about what the staff members mean to them, and we may include your picture in our calendar for sale during Residents’ Rights Month!

Send entries to info@theconsumervoice.org.

Residents' Rights Month Products

This year's products include 2015 calendars, keychains, magnets and bumper stickers.  Visit the Consumer Voice Store

Residents' Rights Month 2014 News

Ombudsman across the country have published articles and press releases celebrating residents' rights:

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