Are your residents still only offered the main meal or the alternate/token choice? Learn how to increase choices and offer true choice.
This is a continuation of the 2023 series, Back to the Future: Moving Dining Forward.
Hosted and presented by Carmen Bowman MHS, BSW, Regulator turned Educator.
With Registered Dietitian and Licensed Nursing Home Administrator: Linda Bump MPH, RD, Action Pact Consultant.
From token to true choice, using regulations and standards to help people living in long-term care to eat what they want to eat, and to live the lives they want to live.
Come out of the pandemic better. Take advantage of this time and do it different. Learn how to shift your culture to honor each individual and get back to normal, to HOME, particularly in all things dining and vibrant daily living.
Each webinar will be framed by culture change practices, the Dining Practice Standards, leaning into CMS requirements and the Artifacts of Culture Change 2.0, the domains of wellbeing embedded in the CMS RoPs, and Kitwood’s basic human needs.
Topics and concepts will include:
Offer true choice, not token choice
Real foods not artificial
Nourishment for body and soul
Ability to get snacks without needing to ask
A normal dining experience
Open dining times instead of set
Regular diets instead of restricted
Delicious foods of a pureed consistency, replacing unpalatable
Varying cultural/ethnic preferences
Simple and daily pleasures
Involve residents in preparation of foods
All this and more will help your home comply with CMS requirements to honor choice, health and wellbeing. Culture change practices and the Dining Practice Standards have helped professionals to help residents eat foods they want to eat, to gain instead of lose weight, enjoy dining and vibrant life again and experience improvement in their quality of living.
Join us for each month's conversation guided by Linda Bump and Carmen Bowman.
Carmen Bowman
Carmen owns Edu-Catering: Catering Education for Compliance and Culture Change turning her former role of regulator into educator. Carmen was a Colorado state surveyor for nine years, a policy analyst with CMS Central Office where she taught the national Basic Surveyor Course and was the first certified activity professional to be a surveyor. Carmen co-developed the Artifacts of Culture Change 2.0 measurement tool and is the author of several Action Pact workbooks.
Linda Bump
Linda Bump is a Registered Dietitian and Licensed Nursing Home Administrator with a passion for resident choice and quality of life, with a particular focus on the kitchen as the heart of the home. As an administrator, she has guided four organizations through transformations to a social model of care: Northome Healthcare Center, Bigfork Valley Communities, Meadowlark Hills and Pennybyrn at Maryfield. She has extensive experience as both an internal and external consultant in nursing homes and has provided education on culture change to 60+ nursing homes through her work with Action Pact since 1999.