Resident-directed long-term care: staff provision of choice during morning care.

Simmons SF, Rahman A, Beuscher L, Jani V, Durkin DW, Schnelle JF. Resident-directed long-term care: staff provision of choice during morning care. The Gerontologist. 2011 Dec;51(51). 867-75. PMID: 21719629 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC3220665

Abstract

To develop an observational protocol to assess the quality of staff-resident communication relevant to choice and describe staff-resident interactions as preliminary evidence of the usefulness of the tool to assess current nursing home practices related to offering choice during morning care provision.