2006 Residents' Rights Week Essay/Poetry Challenge 

When facilities CARE, residents will be treated with dignity and respect of their full individuality; staff and residents will enjoy relationships that enhance their day-to-day lives; and the long-term care facility will operate more effectively with its day-to-day activities based on and developed with consumer involvement.
 

Many people care about residents - family members, citizen advocates, ombudsmen, and facility staff all included. This care can be truly expressed in actions that promote and support: Choice, Accountability, Rights and Empowerment.
 

The 2006 Residents’ Rights Packet offers examples of how to promote the best CARE possible for residents of long-term care facilities.  See a sampling of resident poems and essays that appear in the booklet.