“Regs … they lead the way, they’re not in the way.”
Carmen Bowman
Reclaiming Normal Life: Rejecting the Overemphasis on Medical Care and the Medicalization of Living
Bowman, C., & Lim, W. M. (2024). Reclaiming Normal Life: Rejecting the Overemphasis on Medical Care and the Medicalization of Living. Activities, Adaptation & Aging, 48(4), 535–542.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2024.2426358
Innovation, Best Practice, or Normal Life?
Bowman, C., & Lim, W. M. (2023). Innovation, Best Practice, or Normal Life? Activities, Adaptation & Aging, 47(4), 415–422.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2023.2269516
Promising Practices for Social Connectedness, Fall Prevention, and Improved Cognition: Should Social Care Be Prescribed? Should Life Be Medicalized?
Bowman, C., & Lim, W. M. (2022). Promising Practices for Social Connectedness, Fall Prevention, and Improved Cognition: Should Social Care Be Prescribed? Should Life Be Medicalized? Activities, Adaptation & Aging, 46(2), 91–95.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2022.2070947
Aging in a Place of Choice
Lim, W. M., & Bowman, C. (2022). Aging in a Place of Choice. Activities, Adaptation & Aging, 46(3), 183–189.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2022.2097806https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2022.2097806
How to Avoid Ageist Language in Aging Research? An Overview and Guidelines
Bowman, C., & Lim, W. M. (2021). How to Avoid Ageist Language in Aging Research? An Overview and Guidelines. Activities, Adaptation & Aging, 45(4), 269–275.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2021.1992712
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GUARDIANS OF NORMAL LIFE
How Activity/ Recreation/ Engagement/Community Life Professionals can Save the World of LTC
Most people living, working, and visiting LTC homes don’t know it can be different. We have inherited an institutional culture and been conditioned to think it is the only way. But, did you know? We can reject the institution with regulations backing transformational change. Most people don’t know regulations are not in the way, they lead the way.
This eResource is meant to be different. It is not a book with pages and page numbers. Instead, it consists of standalone Informative Sheets meant to be shared. On each Info Sheet you learn a normal life practice and how it is backed or even required by federal regulations. Use every one of them to embolden you and all those who care about the LTC home you represent.
Learn what regulations say and don’t say. Are you top heavy on groups? Most are. Learn how to dispel the pressure to have so many group activities. Interests is the focus of Tag 679, not activities. It’s not about busy work or being occupied; it’s about meaningful engagement. It’s about having meaning and purpose, not passive or active attendance at activities. Learn to create an Expectancy of Engagement, a Pledge to Engage and an Oath against Boredom.
Learn to use Regulations to Reject & Replace Institution with Home & Normal Life. Become an advocate no matter your role. If we each do this, we can make living in a LTC home terrific. Please join me in building an army of guardians of normal life.
No one says, FACILITY SWEET FACILITY.
Here’s to true HOME SWEET HOME.
Keep the HOME in nursing home
and the LIVING in assisted living.
Price 35.00. However, if you join the army of guardians of normal life/subscribe to the blog, the price drops to 25.00. Just subscribe to blog below, let us know you want it, and we’ll send you a discount code. Thanks for considering. carmen@edu-catering 303-981-7228
Wow. This resource has changed my perspective on how I approach activities. I, too, have fallen into the trap of believing that my department was only as good as my attendance numbers and that group activities are the end-all and be-all of life in nursing homes. Bowman has challenged me to see beyond these institutional confines and cultivate an environment of Normal Life in the community I serve. And she shows how to USE the regulations to do so! I no longer feel chained to regulations but freed by them! I can advocate for the people I serve by showing administrators (and surveyors) that I am exceeding regulations when I support the people’s choices, preferences, and interests. Thanks, Carmen, for an awesome resource!
Dr. Hayley Moseley, ACC CADDCT CDCS
hayleyteach@gmail.com
Here is a downloadable sample.
Click to access Guardians-of-Normal-Life-eResource-free-sample.pdf
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Individualizing Medication Administration using Regulations
Learn ALL the many CMS federal regulations that SUPPORT individualized medication administration.
Learn HOW other teams have done it.
Be inspired by people who both live and work in cultures that have individualized medications and the timing of them and WHY they all LOVE it.
Take and make your own an included SAMPLE draft policy.
Price is $35.00. However, if you join the army of guardians of normal life by subscribing to our periodic Be Encouraged blog, we will drop the price to $25.00 just for the asking. Thanks for considering.
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