The Benefits of Household Dining:
Maximizing Choice and Relationships
in this Pleasure of Daily Life

Do you wonder if dining really matters?  Have we done enough to make dining more resident directed?  Why must we continue to move our systems forward in honoring resident choice in dining and in creating relationship-based dining service systems?

There are many reasons:

  • Because our residents are demanding it

  • Because our residents deserve it

  • Because CMS is advocating for increasing change

  • Because Households make it possible

  • and simply, because it is the right thing to do!


Participants will explore each topic (see agenda) through lively discussion, stories of the pioneering work of staff and residents, and personal exercises.  You will use the guidance and challenges of the New Dining Practice Standards to navigate from Mazlov's early work to creating The Kitchen as a Great Good Place in residents' lives. At the conclusion participants will understand how to build on the inherent characteristics of households to maximize dining as a daily pleasure.


Agenda

  • 8:30 - Dining at Home

    • An essential component in creating the Highest Practicable Level of Wellbeing for our residents

  • 10:00 - Break

  • 10:15 - Token Choice or Meaningful Choice

    • Guidance from New Dining Practice Standards

  • 11:45 - Lunch

  • 12:15 - Proven Benefits of Maximizing Choice

  • 2:00 - Break

  • 2:15 - Advancing Autonomy and Self-Determination through Individualization & Relationships

  • 3:30 - Adjourn


Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of the workshop:

  • Participants will be able to identify opportunities to achieve “highest practicable level of wellbeing” in dining in a hierarchical progression.

  • Participants will be able to state four specific domains of opportunity to maximize meaningful resident choice.

  • Participants will be able to state at least four proven positive outcomes of maximizing choice in the resident dining experience.

  • Participants will be able to define at least ten opportunities to enhance individualization and relationship in the resident dining experience.


Continuing Education

The National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) has approved this program for 6 clock hours.  | Applications have also been submitted for approval for 6 clock hours for Registered Dietitians, Dietetic Technicians and Certified Dietary Managers.

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