Not for Profit/IDDD

2018 AHCA/NCAL Annual Convention

NPID-3 - Toward Better Behavior: Yours, Mine, and Everyone Else’s

Speaker(s)

• 

  Barbara Speedling, BS

  President/Quality of Life Specialist
  Innovations for Quality Living

  Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:
  Nothing to disclose

As the long-term care demographics continue to shift and diversify, the greater the need to understand people as individuals. Achieving such understanding presents new challenges and considerations in assessment and care planning. While the long-term care industry once focused almost exclusively on care for the frail elderly, today’s populations are far more varied in age, disability, and psychosocial circumstances. That makes understanding “what makes someone tick” more complicated, at best. This session provides professional caregivers in all walks of long-term care a framework for developing an assessment process that results in a deeper understanding of what motivates someone to do what they do. With greater understanding comes a more focused, personalized plan to accommodate the complicated needs of every individual.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the concept of culture change and the expectations of regulators and consumers with regard to achieving person-centered, person-directed care
• Discuss human behavior and the importance of a comprehensive assessment
• Create person-centered, innovative interventions as alternatives to pharmacologic remedies in response to the behavioral health needs of residents with special needs