{"id":684,"date":"2017-08-04T08:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threelinks.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2018-03-21T08:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:52:44","slug":"questions-and-answers-supporting-resident-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/questions-and-answers-supporting-resident-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions and Answers: Supporting Resident Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"
We asked Faria Ali, our Director of Care, \u201cHow does the care team support residents in making choices about the<\/strong>ir daily routine?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n When a person moves into a care home, they experience many losses. Some of these losses include, but are not limited to, the loss of their independence, their home, separation from their loved ones, friends, and community, and a change to their usual routine.<\/p>\n We understand how difficult this move is. We support our residents during their transition by giving them choices so they feel more in control of their lives. We start by giving their families a \u201cgetting to know me\u201d form. The information gathered from this form helps our care team understand who has moved into our care home: what is important to them, their accomplishments, their losses, their likes and dislikes, and who helps support them.<\/p>\n While we are not able to fulfill every request we get from residents, there are many things that we can do to give them back some control over their lives.<\/p>\n Some of the ways residents make choices about their routines at Three Links include:<\/p>\n Residents are encouraged to be engaged in the life of the facility through recreation programs, socializing with co-residents and staff, participating in resident council meetings, and going out to the community if it\u2019s safe to do on their own. If they are adamant that they do not want to participate in an activity, their wish is honored and respected.<\/p>\n We hope that, despite the losses they experience, that each of our residents gains something by moving into long term care. In addition to providing excellent health care, we strive to make Three Links a vibrant place to live where people can live and age with dignity.<\/p>\n *This question came to us from responses to our 2017 Resident Family Questionnaire<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We asked Faria Ali, our Director of Care, \u201cHow does the care team support residents in making choices about their daily routine?\u201d When a person moves into a care home, they experience many losses. Some of these losses include, but are not limited to, the loss of their independence, their home, separation from their loved…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n