Elder Law Practice of Timothy L. Takacs offers a four-hour training program in nursing home resident advocacy for clients and their families who have loved ones in a nursing home facility or anticipate the need for having loved ones in a long-term care nursing facility.

Program Goals

• Prepare families by providing tools to meet the challenging role of a nursing home resident advocate
• Improve the resident’s quality of care
• Improve the resident’s quality of life
• Help families to form realistic expectations
• Prepare families to partner with long-term care facilities to ensure a higher quality of care and life
• Decrease family stress

Topics

• Searching for and selecting a nursing home
• Admission paperwork
• Making a new home
• Federal and state nursing home regulations
• Resident rights
• Plans of Care & medical charts
• Identifying good quality of care and danger signals
• Teaching advocates what they can do to help nursing homes provide good quality care to their loved ones
• Identifying problems and problem resolution
• Family councils

For more information contact Elder Law Practice of Timothy L. Takacs at (615) 824-2571.

When my grandmother went into the nursing home, Dad and I were anxious, to say the least. The Nursing Home Advocacy training workshop helped us know what to expect—and what to demand.  It gave us the confidence to stand up for quality care.  It is comforting to know that our Elder Care Coordinator is there to support us if we need it.