Implementing Person-Centred Language: An Overview for Long-Term Care Team Leaders and Managers

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Implementing Person-Centred Language: An Overview for Long-Term Care Team Leaders and Managers

Discover helpful strategies to implement, enhance or sustain it in your long-term care home.

Outline

After learning what person-centred language is and why it is important when supporting residents, discover helpful strategies to implement, enhance or sustain it in your long-term care home. Explore the four Commitment Statements designed to promote its use.

Objectives

Explain what person-centred language is and why it is important.

Use the four Commitment Statements to help you to practice person-centred language on a daily basis and support others to do the same.

Execute strategies to implement, enhance and sustain person-centred language within your long-term care home.

Audience

Those in long-term care leadership roles including:

Team Leads
Directors of Care
Directors of Nursing
General Managers
Assistant General Managers
Educators

Credits

This course may complement other professional activities that you are doing. Once you complete the course, you’ll be able to download a Certificate of Participation that you may use to demonstrate continuing professional development with your professional regulatory body.

Developers

Kate Ducak, Schlegal-UW Research Institute for Aging (RIA)
Tina Kalviainen, Behaviour Supports Ontario (BSO)
Tammy Cummings, Ontario Centres for Learning, Research & Innovation in Long-Term Care (OCLRI)
Monica Bretzlaff, Behaviour Supports Ontario (BSO)

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