Quality of Life: Quality Means More than Good Care - It Means Having a Good Life

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By Carmen Bowman
Now Carmen Bowman - former Colorado state surveyor, former policy analyst with CMS, and co-founder of the Colorado Culture Change Coalition - has written a workbook to help you deal with the new federal interpretive guidelines and to bring about the “Culture Change Movement” and “person-centered care” in your program and facility.
“What has always been considered common practice is now becoming deficient practice.” This is how the book begins. It then addresses: quality of life, dignity, determination and participation, accommodations and needs, activities and social services, and environment. The book spells out what is deficient practice, common practice, and the culture changed practice in each of the areas listed above. It is filled with “self-examination exercises” that are not only great learning experiences for the reader to see how a facility rates, but are wonderful in-service activities that give understanding of why the guidelines are so necessary and bring home the need for change in our routines of care. 24 pages, 11" x 8-1/2". Copyright 2004.

Product meets new interpretive federal guidelines, issued by CMS in 2006. Click here for more information.