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Emergency Preparedness Guide for Assisted Living

Your long-term care facility has asked you as a member of human resources to join the company team to create an Emergency Preparedness Guide for your Assisted Living facility.

You are asked to explain the emergency operations plan as part of Emergency Preparedness Guide for an Assisted Living facility. Explain these operations. What is the action strategy to be taken to maintain resident care in the facility and to limit the movement of residents, staff and visitors in order to protect people and property from a hazard? Who will be onsite to ensure the strategy is implemented?

Access the planning process as part of Emergency Preparedness Guide for an Assisted Living facility. What does the planning process as part of an Emergency Preparedness Guide for an Assisted Living facility look like for your facility? Who at your facility needs to be involved?

Provide a Shelter in Place plan for your facility as part of Emergency Preparedness Guide for an Assisted Living facility. If you were to hand this off to family members what main areas will it cover?

Develop a Communications Plan. Have one slide of the highlights to show what will it look like—it will need to address stakeholders including media so the community is aware. The Communications Plan is part of Emergency Preparedness Guide for the Assisted Living facility. Who at your facility will be responsible for updating the media?

Answer 1

Emergency preparedness program consists of

- assigns responsible for day-to-day responsible during an emergency

- organizational relationship that differ from routine operations

- describe how residents,staff and property protected

- identifies personal, equipment, supplies in the community or facilities

- meets state and local laws for planning..

Hazards can be avoided by people with support of communication especially for vulnerable people those who impaired mobility,fall risks, cognitive impairments, chronic pain, respiratory and dialysis management..

Strategy to limit their movement in assisted living facilities like communication with residents and facilities, friendliness of staff with residents,welcoming new residents to feel comfortable, providing variety of entertainment activities program,avoid fall injury for residents, utilizing ambient, sensor based technologies can automate fall risk assessment and prevent falls..fitness program for seniors to improve physical activity to decrease falls and improve well being..