Colorado Culture Change Coalition
Who Are We?
CCCC is a community of dedicated individuals interested in transforming the culture of the long term care continuum.
Culture Change in Action
- Person centered or person directed care
- Decision making returned to residents
- Flexibility in set routines and schedules
- Increased decision making given to direct care staff
- Strong support of direct care staff; i.e. career ladders and leadership positions
- Consistent staff assignments in order to learn residents’ routines and needs
- Resident choice in time of getting up and going to bed
- Buffet, restaurant, and/or family style dining giving resident choice of meals and meal times
- Warm, relaxing and inviting bathing rooms
- Welcoming resident animals and birds for companionship
- An abundance of living plants inside and landscaping and foliage outside
- Integrating the presence of children in daily life
- Gathering a community to discuss things of mutual interest and concern, to celebrate, to remember, and to mourn.
- Self directed teams, flattened management
- Small units of residents made into neighborhoods and households
- Country kitchen areas on each neighborhood/household
- Dining and sitting areas clustered around neighborhoods kitchens
- Personal laundry done on each neighborhood/household
Our Work
We have monthly Educational Forums in the Denver area on the 4th Friday of every month. The monthly programs are summarized on the Meetings Page of our web site. The Northern and Southern Education Forums have meetings in Ft. Collins, monthly and Pueblo, every other month. See the Meetings page on our website for a list of current meeting times, locations, and subjects.
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