Our Approach
Honouring Voice · Respecting Choice
Riverview Health Centre embraces Person Directed Living, a relationship-based individualized approach where each person’s lifestyle, needs, and preferences are honoured and respected.
We recognized that fostering Person Directed Living required an ongoing commitment to each person that involves advocacy, growth, persistence, resilience, and collective leadership by all. We strive to say ‘yes’ and work together in partnership with the persons we serve and their families/care partners to find ways to support a purposeful and meaningful life and living, using the following Commitments as guide:
Respect
We are respectful, compassionate, and caring towards each other and ensure dignity of each person inclusive of all.
Relationships
We nurture and strengthen relationships with each other through building and maintaining connections and community.
Individualized Living and Care
We foster whole person (holistic) living and care that is based on a person’s preferences and needs to support safety, comfort, health, well-being, and growth.
Autonomy
We support autonomy, independence, and choice though empowerment and shared decision-making.
Dignity of Risk
We accept that each person has a right to make decisions about risk-taking in life and we work together to find a balance between risk and a purposeful and meaningful life.