Person Centered Care Update

Person centered care has made a positive impact on the faciltiy I work at. The following are some examples: 1. Residents that ate alone in their room are now coming out to the dinning room at lunch time to eat 2. One resident that was having pain at meal time is now being layed down even if it is meal time and meal is served later when she is feeling betted and she is eating better and we have actually discontinued one of her narcotics and her pain has not increased. Before person centered care we were encouraging her to stay up untill after the meal and she just didn't eat well.We were more focused on the meal than the resident. 3. Residents that were refusing showers are now taking them because they don't have to worry about it being done on a day or time they don't prefer 4. The biggest impact is the reduction in falls. I did not expect this and I am not sure why it has happened but the number of falls has actually improved. Over the last 2 years our goal has been to have 5 or fewer falls per month. We have not met that goal until the first quarter this year. Last year there was a total of 7.6 falls per month on average and the first quarter this year we had 5 each month for April we only had 1 fall. I will need to do some further study to try and determine why but the one thing that stands out is that we started Person Centered Care on January 1 this year.