If you hadn't heard yet, the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care has expanded annual Residents' Rights Week to RESIDENTS' RIGHTS MONTH! This gives us the entire month of October to call attention to the very important topic of residents' rights.
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 2011 is, "Welcome Home: Creating Connections Between Residents and the Community" with the goal of educating the community about residents' rights and to increase community involvement with residents.
The Consumer Voice would also like to announce the creation of a new product made specifically for Residents' Rights Month! Available now for purchase in our online store, we have put together our first Residents' Rights Community Outreach Kit. Each outreach kit (assembled in a Residents' Rights bag) features a number of items that can be be used for Residents' Rights advocacy including: postcards with Resident Voice artwork and quotes, prideful buttons, classic stickers, fashionable wristbands and a collection of all of the Residents’ Voice entries promoting residents' rights and this year's theme. These kits can also be helpful awareness tools and giveaways for your Residents' Rights Month luncheons, press activities, visits with residents and other activities.
A detailed list of each item and pricing per kit is available at the Community Outreach Kit webpage. This is a not only a great way to show your support of Residents' Rights, but also a powerful way to highlight that we are all united in our advocacy for the rights of residents and championing of quality long-term care for all. Place your order today! The kits will begin shipping in late August/early September.
Interested in Other Consumer Voice Resources?
Some of the most recent additions
to our online store include:
Piecing Together Quality Long-Term Care:
A Consumer's Guide to Choices and Advocacy
This consumer guide, developed in March 2011, educates people with disabilities and older adults about their options for long-term services and supports and empowers consumers to be self-advocates for quality long-term care. The guide includes tips from consumers as well as information and resources to assist people currently living in nursing homes to move back into the community. The guide is 80 pages in length and is a
perfect-bound book.
$20.00 (plus shipping and handling).
Restraints: The Exception, Not the Rule
This resource guide is designed to introduce nursing home residents, their families and friends to care practices that make the use of restraints the "exception not the rule." Included is information on how to recognize and ask for good care that helps residents regain function and as much independence as possible. Restraint use may prevent residents from reaching these goals.
$10.00 (plus shipping and handling). Order Now!
Be sure to check out one of the Consumer Voice's most popular publications, which continues to be a valued resource for consumers and advocates:
 Nursing Homes: Getting Good Care There
The Consumer Voice's widely acclaimed classic consumer guide includes dozens of specific advocacy strategies, checklists and standards of care. A "must-read" for residents, family members, and advocates who seek the best possible care in nursing homes. Also a great training tool for all paid and volunteer ombudsmen.
$15.00 (plus shipping and handling).
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