Senior Citizen Retirement Home And Your Bill Of Rights

As a retired senior, you have inalienable rights to standardized, regulated senior citizen retirement home care, services, treatments, and facilities. As is only just and fair, you have senior citizen retirement rights that coincide with the human rights determined and designated in the U.S. Constitution. You have the right to a quality senior citizen retirement home search, one which allows (and encourages) your research, your bringing along friends and family, and your investigating and asking questions. You have the right to solicit the help of an area ombudsman (volunteer) or other senior citizen retirement counsel who helps you research retirement home care and facilities in your area. You have the right to ask for and should ask for a list you can use to contact the individual homes to do preliminary, informal interviews. You have the right to ask about costs, services, accreditation, skills, regulations, policies, and anything else related to senior citizen retirement homes, as all of the above is public information. You have the right to a senior citizen retirement home that has attentive, vigilant, 24-hour-a-day assistance, thoughtful and nurturing activities, and provisions for healthy foods that are prepared and served by equally knowledgeable and attentive staff. And you have the right to hygienic living and communal spaces, comfortable and abuse-free DHR (Department of Human Resources)-licensed facilities and service and medical personnel, and access to medical staff and medications. Overall, as a resident of a senior citizen retirement home, you have the right to optimum care, respect, and attention--treatment you deserve and that the home has a civil and legal obligation to provide.

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