Residential Care Unit

The Health and Disability Sector Standards require us to inform residents of their rights and responsibilities. Below is the Code of Resident's Rights and Responsibilities adhered to by the Aparangi Village Residential Care Unit.

You have a right to:

• Personal and health care according to your need.
• Be treated as an individual and with dignity and respect.
• View a copy of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumer's Rights 1996.
• Privacy when, for example, attending to hygeine, making and recieving telephone calls, receipt of mail, receiving visitors, personal conversations with staff and residents.
• Treat the facility as your home and to regard yourself as a member of a family consisting of other residents and staff.
• Expect that your safety will be catered for in and around the facility.
• Choose and maintain contact with individuals and groups from the community through visitors to the home and through outings.
• Be consulted about all matters affecting you.
• Be asked to choose from a range of activities both in the facility and in the community.
• Socialise wherever and with whomever you choose.
• To be addressed by your preferred name.
• Maintain your personal independence.
• Ensure that your possessions are not shared without permission.
• Confidentiality of any records staff may keep.
• Control over all personal matters as to your own possessions and clothes, financial matters, and when you sleep.
• Be involved in decision-making about activities of daily life and have information provided in a format best suited to your needs so informed consent is assured.
• Intimacy and sexuality as long as the personal rights of others is maintained.
• Continue with cultural and religious practicies and value systems which have determined your life in the past.
• Complain about anything which upsets you and if necessary have an independent person to advocate on your behalf.

You have a responsibility to:

• Treat fellow residents as members of your family, and remember that other residents have the same rights as you.
• Treat staff as individuals with dignity and respect.
• Assist staff in looking after your health.
• Inform staff when you are leaving the Residential Care Unit, who will be with you, and when you hope to return.
• Treat the facility with care and respect.
• Keep any financial matters current.
• Adhere to any house rules.