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Preference Based Living

Oxford, OH, US • 5 - 9 Employees
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We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners who collaborate to provide tools and resources for nursing home and long-term care providers implementing any version of the PELI (Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory) to promote the adoption of preference-based living in their organization. People who receive long-term services and supports often experience better health and wellbeing when their preferences are understood and honored. Their quality of life is enhanced by greater connection, autonomy, dignity, and satisfaction. These core insights and compassionate values spurred a more responsive, personalized approach - known as preference-based living - to care for adults who receive long-term services and supports. Knowing and honoring each person's everyday preferences helps individuals who receive care maintain authorship of their own lives. The Preference Based Living team provides practitioners and researchers, individuals and their families, with tools and research findings regarding ways to:- Learn about individual preferences- Design and implement care aligned with individual preferences- Measure quality of preference-based care in diverse settings.Our mission is to conduct studies that build an understanding of individual preferences and test innovative methods to honor preferences for people receiving long-term services and supports. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners represents the fields of gerontology, clinical psychology, human development, nursing, recreation therapy, social work, sociology, computer science, and statistics. Translating research into practice is a hallmark of the team. In addition to scientific studies, we develop resources for formal and informal caregivers, including assessment tools, evidence-based interventions, webinars, videos, implementation manuals and tip sheets.