Residents' Rights Index

NCCNHR: The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care is excited to offer a new event to our annual Residents' Rights Week: The Residents' Voice. The Residents' Voice is an opportunity for residents from facilities across the country to share their ideas about this year's theme, "Recipe for Home: Defining and Creating Home in Long-Term Care Facilities" with other residents, ombudsmen, families, community members and nursing home staff.

We are inviting residents to submit their recipe for what home means to them and how to create that home in a long-term care facility. The Resident submissions will be randomly displayed on the NCCNHR and National Ombudsman Resource Center websites in a new section called "The Residents' Voice." Residents who participate will receive a certificate of participation.

Please note that entries are due August 1, 2008!

• Photo Release Form
• Submission Criteria

2008 Residents' Rights Week Packet

This completely downloadable and ready-to-use packet includes promotional materials, activities to celebrate Residents' Rights Week, training tools, and resources.NCCNHR’s Residents’ Rights Week Packet of Materials that will include suggested activities; training materials; and resources.

Recommended Activities:

• Taste of Home
• Recipe for a Good Life
• Town Hall Meeting

Training Activities:

• Culture Change - Planting the Seeds for the Future (cover page and PPT)
• Sensitivity Training

Home vs. Homelike by the Eden Alternative

Promotional Materials:

• Proclamation - Governor
• Proclamation - Mayor
• Sample Letter to the Editor
• Sample Press Release

Examples of How Ombudsmen Celebrate Residents' Rights Week

The Area IV LTC Ombudsman Program, Lafayette, IN, hosted a party for residents to kick-off Residents’ Rights Week 2007. Read about the party and how they did it, and view some photos of the event.

Let us know you're celebrating! Contact Milissa Lake-Spencer, Ombudsman Specialist, at mlakespencer@nccnhr.org.

We will be featuring different Ombudsman Program Activities to celebrate Residents' Rights Week.