Person-Centered Care

This Motivational Interviewing chart provides clear actions to take to assist nursing home residents in the vaccine decision-making process.

The Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation has created the Batz Guide App with the hope to better equip and educate families to make them stronger advocates of their own care during their hospital stay. The intention of this app is to provide a tool for families, medical staff and patients that helps them to monitor care in real time.

Download and display this poster in your nursing home facility to help encourage staff to engage patients in their own care.

This article focuses on the effects of music on long-term residents and provides tips for long-term care staff when using music.

This tip sheet provides an at-a-glance overview of Motivational Interviewing techniques such as RULE, OARS and leaning into resistance.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening motivation and commitment to change. TMF's MI Toolkit includes trainings, fact sheets, videos and audio podcasts to help you utilize effective techniques.

Download and display this poster in your nursing home facility to help remind staff to use common courtesy when entering a resident's room.

This form from the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services can be used by attending physicians to document expected outcomes for nursing home residents in need of end-of-life care.

This site provides clear, comprehensive palliative care information and resources for people dealing with serious illness at any age and at any stage.

In this 12-minute audio podcast, TMF's Russell Kohl, MD, chief medical officer and chief operating officer, Clifford Moy, MD, behavioral health medical director, and Melinda Quinn, quality improvement specialist, discuss vaccines as well as some of the hesitancy and resistance some people have. It is an enlightening Q&A that provides important medical perspectives.

Using open-ended questions to understand knowledge, perspectives and emotions is an important Motivational Interviewing (MI) technique. Use this MI tool to help address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

This workbook, developed by Ariadne Labs and The Conversation Project, was created to help a person with a serious illness prepare to speak with their health care team about goals and preferences that matter the most to them.