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
Support generously provided by:
