(1) The adult family home must promote care for residents in a manner and in an environment that maintains or enhances each resident's dignity and respect in full recognition of his or her individuality.
(2) The home may design home rules that protect the rights and quality of life of residents. Within these rules, the home must ensure the resident's right to:
(a) Choose activities, schedules, and health care consistent with the resident's interests, assessments, and negotiated care plan;
(b) Interact with members of the community both inside and outside the home;
(c) Make choices about aspects of life in the home that are significant to the resident;
(d) Wear the resident's own clothing and decide their own dress, hair style, or other personal effects according to individual preference;
(e) Unless adjudged incompetent or otherwise found to be legally incapacitated to:
(i) Be informed in advance about recommended care and services and of any recommended changes in the care and services;
(ii) Participate in planning care and treatment or changes in care and treatment;
(iii) Direct the resident's own service plan and changes in the service plan; or
(iv) Refuse any particular service so long as such refusal is documented in the record of the resident.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
70.128.040 and
70.128.060. WSR 21-11-074, § 388-76-10620, filed 5/17/21, effective 8/1/21. Statutory Authority: RCW
70.128.040 and chapters
70.128 and
74.34 RCW. WSR 07-21-080, § 388-76-10620, filed 10/16/07, effective 1/1/08.]