August 20, 2024

In this Issue:

1. Searchable Database of Elder Abuse Resources
2. CDC Respiratory Virus Season Update for Long-Term Care Providers
3. Get Ready for Residents' Rights Month with Products from Consumer Voice's Store
4. Essential Sessions and Expert Speakers at the 2024 Consumer Voice Conference
5. Resource Highlight - Nursing Home Abuse: How to Spot It and How to Get Help

Searchable Database of Elder Abuse Resources

The National Center on Elder Abuse has created a Training Resources on Elder Abuse (TREA) website. TREA is a searchable database designed to support professionals, caregivers, and the community with valuable training resources. 

NCEA is considering training materials for inclusion in the database. Submit materials for review on their website.

CDC Respiratory Virus Season Update for Long-Term Care Providers

The CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion is holding a webinar on Monday, September 16th at 1:00pm ET entitled "2024-2025 Respiratory Virus Season Updates for Long-Term Care Providers." The webinar will provide an overview of the latest respiratory virus vaccination recommendations, testing and treatment guidance, and infection prevention strategies. Long term care facility residents are often at high risk of respiratory infections and severe disease due to respiratory viruses. A combination of interventions can protect residents and staff health during respiratory virus season. Register Now

The CDC has also provided a Nursing Home Toolkit for Responding to Respiratory Viral Infections.

Get Ready for Residents' Rights Month with Products from Consumer Voice's Store

Shop Consumer Voice's store for printed resources, materials for Long-Term Care Ombudsman programs, and products promoting residents' rights.

Megaphone Stress Relievers - Residents' Rights Month Theme 2024

Trade your stress ball for our megaphone stress relievers! These megaphones serve as a reminder that resident voices and stories carry power. Squeeze for stress relief, and speak up for change!

Stress relievers are sold in packs of 10

I Love Residents' Rights Pencil Pouch

These durable pencil pouches can hold writing instruments and more. The pouches come with a mesh divider and display an "I Love Residents' Rights" logo on the front.

Please Knock Door Hangers

These door hangers remind anyone who enters a resident's room that this is their home and assert residents' rights. The pack includes 100 door hangers, printed in sharp, full-color on sturdy card stock with glossy UV coating on one side.

Essential Sessions and Expert Speakers at the 2024 Consumer Voice Conference

Join us in-person or online for the 2024 Consumer Voice Conference, September 23-26.

Featured speakers:

• John Blum, Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Speaking at the Opening Plenary - Tuesday, September 24 at 9:00am PT.
• Anne Basting, Founder of TimeSlips and Emerita Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Speaking at the Luncheon Plenary - Wednesday, September 25 at 1:15pm PT.

Plus, in-person attendees, you can still add a Thursday intensive -

• The Good, the Bad, and the...WHAT? Volunteer Management for Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs
• Winning Strategies for Common Nursing Facility Problems

(Extra fee required for intensive sessions; click "Add to Order" on your registration confirmation email to add to an existing registration)

See the full agenda.

Register Now

Resource Highlight - Nursing Home Abuse: How to Spot It and How to Get Help

All older people have the right to live free from abuse and neglect. Yet, thousands of nursing home residents experience mistreatment every year.  The fact sheet from Consumer Voice and the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) provides information on what families can do to identify abuse and what to do if you suspect abuse is occurring.