Household Matters: A Good Life 'Round the Clock

A Compendium for the New Horizon of Long-Term Care



Through funding of the Commonwealth Fund, Sunflower Foundation and the Kansas Department on Aging, Meadowlark Hills has worked with Action Pact, Inc. to create an integrated toolkit of materials and systems for use by long-term care providers (and others) with a stake in transforming the culture of nursing homes in a sustainable fashion.

Taken together, the toolkit's components provide an explicit roadmap for how an organization can shape itself to become a resident-directed service model with a well trained, empowered, and satisfied workforce. The packaged toolkit will not only assist in assuring culture change sustainability, but will be a vehicle also for increasing the rate of culture change penetration in the long-term care community.

The toolkit has four major parts:

1) In Pursuit of the Sunbeam - A Practical Guide to Transform Institution to Home: A leadership book by Steve Shields & LaVrene Norton that assists providers by providing a change framework based on the Norton/Shields Change Matrix: Self, Leadership, Organizational and Environmental Transformation.

2) Daybreak - Creating Home: A set of policies and procedures shaped for household life.

3) Midday - Living & Working in Harmony: An integrated human resource system that reflects the values of the new model.

4) Evensong - Reflecting on Quality: A system of team-based continuous quality improvement


Several years ago there were only a handful of leaders among the roughly 16,000 nursing facilities in the nation who were deeply affecting change. Quite appropriately, the emphasis in the first several years of the culture change movement has focused on raising the awareness of the need to change and motivating providers to begin the process of change. These are important and necessary steps. The Pioneer Network's "Getting Started" Manual is a vital resource for that early process. Household Matters builds on that phase and is a graduation to a comprehensive template of methodologies and support system – a template to initiate and sustain change.

There are several potential audiences for the product, the principle ones being organizations such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities that provide institutional, long-term care services. In addition, the toolkit of products will greatly benefit consultants in long-term care, enabling them to enhance their services and effectiveness in helping organizations reshape themselves. Other potential markets are training programs for LTC administrators, because ultimately the future of long-term care lies in preparing administrators to lead nursing homes that have become person-directed, or to lead nursing homes through the culture change process.

$718.00
All proceeds from Household Matters are used to directly support the Pioneer Network's unique mission to spread culture change practices far and wide.
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