WNYAPCC’s vision is to educate, promote and develop person-centered care among Western New York long term care and assisted living entities, and to improve the quality of life for elders, their families and the community at large. The organization will serve as a guide, mentor and resource in helping providers make the journey from institution to HOME.

Our goals include to:

• Engage elders in meaningful quality of life choices

• Focus on individual preferences and lifelong patterns to enable simple pleasures, restore meaning to life and create overall well being

• Foster social connectedness and make relationships the core of what we do and a part of daily life

• Enable close and continuing relationships between elders, family members, care partners and community

• Support and empower professional care partners and teams to listen and respond to elders' needs and desires

• Reduce staff turnover through increased job satisfaction

• Improve quality indicators as well as elder and family satisfaction

• Increase credibility of the geriatric professions

• Include regulators and government so as to eliminate fear of change initiation and improve reimbursement strategies for quality outcomes and performers

• Assist in building a “learning community” where we can learn by identifying needs, overcoming barriers through shared problem solving, best practices, implementing solutions and measuring for success. Person-centered care is a journey, not a program.

• Create a resource network for culture change and person-centered care