Kansas Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Program are advocates for residents rights. Paid and volunteer staff work to protect the quality of life and quality of care for Kansans who live in long-term care settings, such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home plus facilities.
Ombudsman do not regulate long-term care facilities, but they do work with residents, their families, providers and other agencies to resolve problems and concerns.
Some of the ways ombudsmen help long-term care residents include:
- Advocating for person-centered approaches by providers to meet the needs and honor the preferences of residents;
- Working to resolve complaints and issue on behalf of residents.
- Telling residents about their rights.
- Providing information and support for resident and family councils.
- Helping residents and families learn about long-term care.
- Working to to bring about change that improves care at the local, state, and national levels.
Training opportunity for residents, family, care providers and anyone interesting in learning more about how to better support older adult in long term care
Attendees will learn how to put together a simple tool to communicate “what is important to a person” and “how they need to be supported”. It can be used as an introduction to a person in many settings when that individual isn’t able to adequately communicate for themselves, in their long-term care setting but also hospitalization. It creates a person-centered foundation for supporting needs and offering comfort.
We will be offering the this free training on two dates. Please register below under that date that works best for you.