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All Aboard: Improving Transportation Services

Posted: April 1, 2019

As people age, it becomes more difficult to drive.  Vision, mobility, and mental capacity decline.  Also, the side effects of some medications may create problems.  But many older adults do not want to stop driving.  Some see it as a significant loss.  Others may see it as a threat to their well-being.  There may be truth to this.  Some research shows that when older adults stop driving, they experience lower life satisfaction, depression, and a decline in their general health (Liddle, 2012) (Marottoli, 1997) (Edwards, 2009).​

Choose Well Times - March 2019

Posted: March 21, 2019

March's Choose Well Times features Leo Espinosa's journey to becoming licensee and administration of Butterfly Gardens II.  You'll find that on the first page of the issue.  If you're looking for activities for your facility, this issue has suggestions for holiday-themed activities and lists not-for-profit organizations offering pet therapy happiness.  Page 4 of this issue has an article on Resident Councils and what your responsibilities are for allowing your residents to assemble to talk over issues they have with your facility.  

Choose Well Times - January 2019

Posted: February 6, 2019

January 2019's edition of Choose Well Times reminds providers of the annual data-dropoff and rescoring event.  There is also an article about fall prevention, a promo for the 7 February Lunch n' Learn event at the HHSA East County Offices, late-breaking news about the number of Choose Well members in each of six HHSA Regions, links to CCLD's most current PINs, and more.   

Quality Measure 10: Observing for Changes in Condition

Posted: January 31, 2019

Quality Measure 10: Basic Resident Care and Supervision – Ensuring that residents’ basic needs and preferences are sufficiently documented and addressed.

Quality Measure 10 contains fourteen Title 22 regulations.  One of these is regulation Section 87466, Observation of the Resident.  This section requires facilities—

“regularly observe residents for changes in physical, mental, emotional and social functioning and that appropriate assistance is provided when such observation reveals unmet needs." 

It also requires- 

Choose Well Times - November Edition

Posted: November 23, 2018

The new Choose Well Times for November has been sent to your email inbox, and we're posting it here for you as well.  This issue contains an interview with Tami Amundson, licensee of 3 Sisters Hacienda, and how she works to attract and retain staff members. There is also Save-the-Date information about the upcoming 12/6 Advisory Workgroup Meeting, and the February 7th Lunch n' Learn.

Choose Well Times - September Edition

Posted: November 23, 2018

Dan Bailey's Lakeside Manor is featured in the September issue of the Choose Well Times.   The newsletter also reports on the latest PINS which have been added to the website.  You'll find 5 cool things about Choose Well that you may not have known, and Chrisy Selder's article about staying in compliance with Title 22's water temperature reg is also a good read.  In the Compliance Corner you'll see a reminder to have the LGBT Bill of Rights posted next to your nondiscrimination policy.  

 

 

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