Platform Statement
June 9, 2021 | Resident Advisory Council
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- We believe that all residents in Long-Term Care deserve adequate care.
- To receive adequate care, we need staff to be appropriately trained and compensated to ensure a high-quality, stable, and capable workforce.
- We believe individuals deserve to have access to the right level of care and be aware of their options.
- We believe that quality care starts with corporate accountability.
- Ownership, like leadership, can make a difference in quality care.
- Lack of stability in ownership and management harms residents.
- We believe that all facilities have a duty to ensure that residents live free from violence or the threat of violence.
- Preventing violence against long-term care residents is all of our responsibility.
- Residents require further and consistent education about retaliation. When a community fears violence and retribution, they are disempowered from voicing what is happening.
- Residents need to be heard, trusted, and respected.
- We are more than our labels and diagnosis and deserve to be treated as whole people.
- Ageist and ableist stereotypes harm long-term care residents.
- Residents should have a voice in decisions that are made about their lives from care plans to policy.
- We believe that residents require further outreach about currently available resources.
- There should be an expanded budget for Adult Protective Services (APS), Residental Care Services (RCS), and the Ombudsman program to conduct outreach to residents, facility staff, families, and the state.
- If residents don’t know what’s available, we will not access what already exists.
- Residents should have the ability to organize freely within their facility. “If you say that this is our home, then let us treat each other like family.”