Customer Experience
2018 AHCA/NCAL Annual Convention
CE-2 - Understanding How Connectedness Creates Meaning, Joy, and Safety in Your Facility
Tuesday, October 9
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM
CE: NAB: 1.25 | Nurses 1.25
The new federal Rules of Participation require facilities to create opportunities for each resident to have a meaningful life by supporting his or her domains of wellness, including security, autonomy, growth, connectedness, identity, joy and meaning. We share in this session a body of work conducted with 51 Massachusetts Long Term Care Facilities that has the potential to address all of these. In this interactive session, we will share a set of strategies, based in positive psychology that participants can use in their own facilities to increase resident engagement and enhance joy, meaning and connectedness.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how Appreciation and other branches of positive psychology can enhance resident engagement in daily life
- List strategies to create a positive environment in resident council by adding an asset-based inquiry in addition to traditional deficit-based approaches
- Describe strategies to increase resident engagement and wellness through participatory activities