Living Life to the Fullest:
A Match Made in OBRA '87
Action Pact, Inc. © 2007.
About the Workbook:
This Activities Workbook is written by activities professional and former state
surveyor, Carmen S. Bowman. Carmen is currently the principal of Edu-catering, a
consulting company.
The workbook displays Carmen's depth of knowledge about the role of activities in the
culture changing environment, and sites F-Tag concerns, specifically F-272, Comprehensive
assessment, F-248, Activities, and F-279 Comprehensive Care Plan.
Including worksheets, resources, exercises and discussion topics, this book will take
you by the hand and lead you through both the philosophical and the practical topics of
the role of activities in Culture Change.
About the CD-ROM:
Action Pact's New Meaningful Activity Assessment packs
everything you could want in an assessment including the new CMS
Interpretive Guidance for Tag 248!
CMS Interpretive Guidance for Tag 248 Incorporated:
- Incorporates the CMS Interpretive Guidance for Tag 248
Activities that went into effect 6/1/06.
- Guidance language turned into assessment questions.
- Included on the CD are two lengthy sections of the CMS
guidance to surveyors (Possible Adaptations and Behavioral
Symptoms Interventions) turned into form style.
Draft MDS 3.0 Incorporated:
- Be ahead of the curve. Become familiar with the MDS 3.0
draft.
- Even if it doesn't ever come to be, the questions are
valuable in guiding the assessor to glean very good information
from the person, not about the person.
This is a guide to help you really get to know a person. The
Activity Interest Assessment is long, but don't let the length
scare you! Aren't you tired of short assessments that typically
only mimic the MDS and at the end we are still left wondering,
"But, who is she?" Let's get beyond the institutional way of just
filling out a form because we have to. This assessment has been
designed to help staff really get to know a new person coming to
live in your midst. Isn't that what any of us would want - to be
known? Use this tool in Short Intervals to build rapport and
relationships.
Activity Interest Prompts are included to help you find out
more! Instead of just having a prompt entitled "Cards" for the
assessor, we listed every card game we could think of. This helps
prompt the person's memory regarding past activities enjoyed. It
also gives the opportunity to turn around a "no" answer into
asking the person if they might like to try to learn something
new.
Included in this assessment are also common culture change
practices around getting to really know a person including things
like the person's typical routines, daily pleasures, and what
brings meaning and purpose into their lives. Prompts are included
to ask about loneliness, boredom and helplessness, the "three
plagues" of institutionalization identified by Dr. Bill Thomas,
founder of the Eden Alternative.
In order to help us on our journey away from institutional care
and towards person-directed care, we've developed a list of
Principles of Excellence to consider adopting, following, hanging
up in your office for all staff to see. These challenge us to
rise higher, treat getting to know someone with utmost honor, turn
the assessment process into a more normal "chit chat" than filling
out a form, and get to know someone "over coffee" rather than
"over a form."
