Quality of Life and Patient Care

​While most residents of long term care facilities return home, many individuals require skilled nursing through their final stages of life. This is often an emotional and challenging time for the family of the individual, as well as the staff who cares daily for the resident. Whether the resident is there for a few months or for years, quality of life is a critical element to any care plan.

Culture Change

• Nursing Home Culture Change Regulatory Compliance Questions and Answers: This CMS resource answers questions regarding facility implementation of culture change.
   
• Culture Change in Long-Term Care: AHCA Bookstore. This book explores different models of culture change from the business, policy, and regulatory perspectives.

End of Life Care

• How Can Clinicians with Diverse Backgrounds and Trainings Collaborate with One Another to Care For Patients at the End of Life? This document explores the relationship between nursing homes and hospice care centers.

• End of Life Care in Assisted Living: Learning About a Resident's Final Days. AHCA Bookstore: This manual provides a sesitive guide to dealing effectively with the challenges and stresses felt by caregivers as they provide end-of-life care. 

• Ending Life: Nursing Solutions for Death with Dignity: AHCA Bookstore. This clinical guide presents strategies for accommodating dying persons and their families. 

Quality of Life

• Quality of Life Assessment: The Borun Center for Gerontological Research resource on quality of life assessment, including training modules and fundamentals. 
   
• Quality Assisted Living: AHCA Bookstore: This book seeks to understand and evaluate assisted living residents' perceived ideas of what constitutes quality of life.