This month we celebrate Residents' Rights Month, an annual event led by the Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care honoring residents living in all long-term care facilities and consumers receiving services in their home or community. It is a time for celebration and recognition offering an opportunity for every facility to focus on the dignity, respect, and value of each individual resident.
The 2021 Residents’ Rights Month theme, “Reclaiming My Rights, My Home, My Life,” acknowledges the impact of COVID-19 on residents this past year and highlights the need for residents’ rights to be recognized, recovered, and reasserted. It emphasizes the recognition of the long-term care facility as the residents’ home, and the importance of residents reclaiming their own lives. The theme focuses on raising awareness of residents’ rights while also underscoring the need for dignity and self-determination for all residents.
Consumer Voice has developed a variety of promotional materials, activity ideas, and resources and fact sheets to help you celebrate the month.
Consumer Voice is also highlighting art and writing from residents of long-term care settings with the Resident’s Voice Challenge. Residents are invited to get creative and submit their work. We've included one of the submissions below and you can view all the full gallery of submissions here.
Stay tuned for more from ACL throughout the month of October.
