Take time to visit long-term care residents
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Editor,
October is National Long-Term Care Residents’ Rights Month, a time to acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices many long-term care residents have made to better our community. By listening to residents’ voices, we honor their lives and experiences as well as treat them with dignity and respect. Many people care about residents, family members, volunteers, long-term care ombudsman, facility staff and others and care can be truly individualized and focused on each person when the individual needs and preferences are honored.
Celebrate and acknowledge these rights by visiting one of our community nursing homes or assisted living homes. We are fortunate in our valley to have three nursing homes and six assisted living homes. I encourage you to visit and find out more about these facilities and spend some time just visiting with the residents. The residents aren’t the only ones who benefit from a visit.
Joyce Schmitz
Ombudsman, Western Montana Area VI Agency on Aging
Polson
