Did you know? So many groups per day is not a requirement.

The following CMS regulation includes groups but does not require so-many/any certain number per day:

CMS Tag 679 Activities: The facility must provide, based on the comprehensive assessment and care plan and the preferences of each resident, an ongoing program to support residents in their choice of activities, both facility-sponsored group and individual activities and independent activities, designed to meet the interests of and support the physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident, encouraging both independence and interaction in the community.

This one long sentence, this one regulation, says a lot and although it mentions groups you can see that groups are not the focus. Do you see what is?

What the ONE word it all boils down to?

THIS is what all of us, those working with people living in LTC homes, families, surveyors, should be joyfully focusing on. NOT groups!

Do you see it?

“When anyone, even me, tells you something is required or not allowed, ask them to show you which regulation states that. Don’t accept people’s opinions without back up as doing so has created the many myths that are killing quality of life for those who live there” – an excerpt from GUARDIANS OF NORMAL LIFE a new eResource that grounds you and your wider team in what regulations really require available at www.edu-catering.com where you can learn lots more. As it is THE TEAM that creates culture.

Join me here often I call this the BE ENCOURAGED BLOG where I will continue to teach what the regulations really require, not this. Here with me, please also consider joining the ARMY OF GUARDIANS OF NORMAL LIFE. If we don’t advocate for real, not institutional/fake, life – who will?